Posted on 10/06/2020 2:34:27 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A grand jury in St. Louis on Tuesday indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey on counts of exhibiting a weapon and tampering with evidence four months after footage circulated showing the couple pointing guns at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their home.
The couple's attorney, Joel Schwartz, said the grand jury reached the decision after the McCloskeys appeared before a judge earlier in the day, NBC affiliate KSDK reported.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner had issued felony charges against the couple in June for unlawful use of a weapon. The grand jury added the tampering-with-evidence charge on Tuesday.
In the now-viral videos from the June incident, the couple can be seen standing outside their home, each holding a firearm — Mark McCloskey with an AR-15 rifle and Patricia McCloskey with a handgun.
Soon after the footage circulated on social media, the couple told CBS affiliate KMOV that they pointed their guns at protesters in self-defense.
“I was terrified that we’d be murdered within seconds. Our house would be burned down, our pets would be killed,” Mark McCloskey said in the interview.
President Trump defended the couple, arguing they were “going to be beat up badly if they were lucky.”
The McCloskeys were then invited to speak at the Republican National Convention in August, with Patricia McCloskey claiming that a win for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in November would “bring crime, lawlessness and low-quality apartments into now-thriving suburban neighborhoods.”
St. Louis police last month issued summonses to nine protesters for trespassing onto a private street during the June incident. Police spokesperson Evita Caldwell told The Associated Press at the time that authorities were still deciding whether to file formal charges against the demonstrators.
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Sooo...the USA does NOT have a second amendment? WTF?
“Is it known what they are accused of tampering?”
Yes. One of the toilets in their home (the indictment narrowed it down to a bathroom in the attic) would not shut off after one of the McCloskeys jiggled (i.e., tampered with) the handle.
And Hillary BleachBit her cell phones and then had them destroyed with hammers.
Where’s the tampering with evidence charge?
Bueller? Anyone?
He can’t pardon state charges.
They should have rioted and burned down a business. Then they would have gone scot free.
Yes
Is it known what they are accused of tampering?
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Probably by speaking the truth, on Tucker, and other shows.
It would NOT surprise me, if this were their actual proof of ‘tampering’ evidence.
Pointing and holding a firearm? What happened to BRANDISHED firearms? That’s the only word they used in reporting that story for months.
Didn’t Hannity say Lin Wood was their attorney and would make short work of the charges? Guess not.. That DA needs to be taken out and horse whipped. I believe the AG of MO said she always files ridiculous charges without foundation.
You can have an outhouse rat on a jury.
Ask OJ.
Being a Jennings, it was probably inoperable right from the factory.
Times have changed. Most people now identify with the Gorge Floyd types. Check the makeup of the rioters. They are at least 50% white. And of that 50% at least 50% of them are White females. And if the case goes to trial, they will be convicted. And if you think it is bad now, wait until they get rid of President Trump.
I would think this outrage would benefit Trump in Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
More future litigation millionaires. Keep going left!
If the MO AG can’t pardon state charges, what can he pardon?
I know of a case in my area of Pittsburgh maybe 15 years ago where a young man waved a gun at punks who were harassing him. He went back into the house to get it. The harassed called the cops and the young man spent the night in jail, then the family spent a ton of money on the court case. These cases are always messy.
rotten filthy scumbags at work again, if barr and durham would only start locking these pukes up at the top the skells on the bottom would get the message
“”I remember Biden saying to shoot a shotgun in the air as a warning. Does he still recommend that?””
Are you kidding? One of these days he is going to deny he ever said he was a Catholic!
I’m sure the MO AG can, the President can’t, which was the subject.
Very true. And now in the United States of America, common sense has gone the way of the do do bird.
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