Posted on 08/03/2021 3:30:55 PM PDT by devane617
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday announced that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators as they marched past the couple’s home in a luxury St. Louis enclave last year.
Parson, a Republican, on Friday pardoned Mark McCloskey, who pleaded guilty in June to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and was fined $750, and Patricia McCloskey, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was fined $2,000.
The McCloskeys, both lawyers in their 60s, said they felt threatened by the protesters, who were passing their home in June 2020 on their way to demonstrate in front of the mayor’s house nearby in one of hundreds of similar demonstrations around the country after George Floyd’s death. The couple also said the group was trespassing on a private street.
Mark McCloskey emerged from his home with an AR-15-style rifle, and Patricia McCloskey waved a semiautomatic pistol, according to the indictment. Photos and cellphone video captured the confrontation, which drew widespread attention and made the couple heroes to some and villains to others. No shots were fired and no one was hurt.
Special prosecutor Richard Callahan said his investigation determined that the protesters were peaceful.
“There was no evidence that any of them had a weapon and no one I interviewed realized they had ventured onto a private enclave,” Callahan said in a news release after the McCloskeys pleaded guilty.
Mark McCloskey, who announced in May that he was running for a U.S. Senate seat in Missouri, was unapologetic after the plea hearing.
“I’d do it again,” he said from the courthouse steps in downtown St. Louis. “Any time the mob approaches me, I’ll do what I can to put them in imminent threat of physical injury because that’s what kept them from destroying my house and my family.”
Because the charges were misdemeanors, the McCloskeys did not face the possibility of losing their law licenses or their rights to own firearms.
The McCloskeys were indicted by a grand jury in October on felony charges of the unlawful use of a weapon and evidence tampering. Callahan later amended the charges to give jurors the alternative of convictions of misdemeanor harassment instead of the weapons charge.
Parson’s legal team has been working through a backlog of clemency requests for months. He hasn’t yet taken action on longtime inmate Kevin Strickland, whoseveral prosecutors now say is innocent of a 1978 Kansas City triple homicide. Parson could pardon Strickland, but he has said he’s not convinced he is innocent.
Excellent!, can’t wait for my pardon.
Took his ass long enough....and only after McCloskey was running for office!
But the D.A. stays.
Yes!
THIS should have never been necessary.
PantiFa should be rounded up and incarcerated [at least those who choose to not be relocated to Cuber].
Good News Tuesday!
First Gwen Berry gets ‘hammered’ out of the top three,
Simone get’s humbled and settled for Bronze
Now this!
Anyone believe this one?
They came back the next weekend and stalked the McCloskeys.
Of course, the Soros puppetprosecutor did nothing about THAT.
Just a lawyer telling a lie. Dog bites man.
No
Richard "I'm A Dick" Callahan is a lying pile of rotting dogsqueezins, like most American prosecutors these days.
Too bad the McCloskeys did not have extensive video camera coverage. I’ll bet they do now.
Well the public should be able to rattle the cage of the DA.
It’s time that we list the phone number and residence of these corrupt prosecutors. I think we need to to everything legally possible to know about them and their family and put it all out on social media.
A promise made, a promise kept.
Ditto
No one realized they had trespassed on private property? They broke down a damn gate to gain access! Gee, I wonder what this large steel gate means? Moron prosecutor.
CC
Finally....so GOOD news
They broke a gate down.
Very good!
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