Higgins was a decent wing man too.
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.
This is the best news of the day (aside from the release of the report on Cuomo). These people get persecuted for defending their home against a roving mob. Only a rat prosecutor could bring such a case.
About damn time!
Lefties are CRYING nationwide!
Higgins was a decent wing man too.
When do they get their guns back !
Since they both pled guilty then that's pretty much a given.
"Marched"? Looked more like the mob left the street and tramped over McCloskey's lawn towrd his house- and them.
Reporters all appear to be graduates of the Joseph Goebbels School of Journalism.
When DAs and AGs have the Soros billions behind them, they are never accountable to the law...
A plea-bargained guilty plea to a reduced charge means little, particularly in the face of financial ruin and possible imprisonment.
Ask Gen. Flynn.
Excellent....had to happen.
Shouldn’t it be “plead” instead of “pleaded”??????
They tore down a gate to get onto the private street, yet they didn’t realize they were on private property.
And her handgun was non-op, less effective than a water pistol, missing components so it could not fire. The authorities committed a criminal act by modifying the pistol in order to fire it, tampering with the evidence.
YEE HAW! Screw you courts! Take those black robes. tie them in knots and stick them where the sun doesn’t shine.
But still a guilty plea. So they're either guilty of the crime or gulty of perjury.
About as much as I believe "No officer, I didn't realize I was doing 75mph in a 25mph zone!"
BTW, since when does "not realizing" someone's committing a crime absolve them from the crime?
Oh, that's right, Shitlery "not realizing" she wasn't committing a crime having her own "private" email server hosted in her home while she was Secretary of State to avoid FOI requests.
Nevermind, carry on!
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