St. Louis couple draws firearms on protesters outside their home
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happyazz
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YET......
and vice versa. His barrel was point directly at her.
The Morning on the Mall hosts on WMAL suggested they take some lessons.
Prosecutor launches investigation after white couple seen pointing guns at St. Louis protesters
Damn that Trump, it's his fault
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gun-t...ey-denies-hes-racist-my-black-clients-love-us
GregV814
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Wait a minute!!!!!
This fine couple are card carrying libs who are lawyers for those Civil Rights VICTIMS!!!! That’s right, he’s a successful lawyer who made a career representing low life’s, criminals, victims of poleeeeece brutality!!! He and drunken mustard stain remodel homes for the oppressed and moved to a gated community to avoid those people!!!!!!
It don’t get better
This fine couple are card carrying libs who are lawyers for those Civil Rights VICTIMS!!!! That’s right, he’s a successful lawyer who made a career representing low life’s, criminals, victims of poleeeeece brutality!!! He and drunken mustard stain remodel homes for the oppressed and moved to a gated community to avoid those people!!!!!!
It don’t get better
Protesters Return To St. Louis Home Where Owners Drew Guns, Heckle Couple From Outside Gates
The protesters stopped “just outside the gates,” resisting a repeat of last week, when the same demonstrators, on their way to the mayor’s home, allegedly broke down a pair of wrought iron doors and entered the private community. For 15 minutes, they chanted Black Lives Matter slogans, though this time, the couple was nowhere to be seen.
Instead, it seems, the McCloskey’s had hired a private security firm to protect their home rather than rely on their own prowess with handguns and an AR-15.
“Inside the gate, more than a dozen men in plain clothes walked the grounds and peered out from a second-floor balcony of the couple’s home, Yahoo News said. “One protester briefly straddled an iron gate as if he was going to jump over, but did not. No one threw anything and no one behind the gates showed aggression. One man on the McCloskeys’ balcony clapped along with the chanting protesters.”
The protesters stopped “just outside the gates,” resisting a repeat of last week, when the same demonstrators, on their way to the mayor’s home, allegedly broke down a pair of wrought iron doors and entered the private community. For 15 minutes, they chanted Black Lives Matter slogans, though this time, the couple was nowhere to be seen.
Instead, it seems, the McCloskey’s had hired a private security firm to protect their home rather than rely on their own prowess with handguns and an AR-15.
“Inside the gate, more than a dozen men in plain clothes walked the grounds and peered out from a second-floor balcony of the couple’s home, Yahoo News said. “One protester briefly straddled an iron gate as if he was going to jump over, but did not. No one threw anything and no one behind the gates showed aggression. One man on the McCloskeys’ balcony clapped along with the chanting protesters.”
Missouri's Republican Governor Backs the McCloskeys' Right to Defend Themselves
The city’s circuit attorney, Kimberly Gardner, has had police confiscate the couple’s rifle, leaving them apparently undefended should anyone want to harm them. The McCloskeys believe Gardner will have them indicted as well.
But the state’s Republican governor has weighed in on the McCloskey’s side.
The city’s circuit attorney, Kimberly Gardner, has had police confiscate the couple’s rifle, leaving them apparently undefended should anyone want to harm them. The McCloskeys believe Gardner will have them indicted as well.
But the state’s Republican governor has weighed in on the McCloskey’s side.
Missouri respects the Castle Doctrine, which provides legal defense should a citizen use a firearm to defend their property.
Hawley seeks DOJ probe of St. Louis case on couple wielding guns at protesters
In a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr, Hawley called for a federal civil rights probe into St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s investigation into the McCloskey family for using firearms to defend themselves and their property against protesters.
“This is an unacceptable abuse of power and threat to the Second Amendment and I urge you to consider a federal civil rights investigation into the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office to determine whether this investigation and impending prosecution violates this family’s constitutional rights,” Hawley wrote to Barr on Thursday.
“There is no question under Missouri law that the McCloskeys had the right to own and use their firearms to protect themselves from threatened violence, and that any criminal prosecution for these actions is legally unsound,” Hawley continued. “The only possible motivation for the investigation, then, is a politically motivated attempt to punish this family for exercising their Second Amendment rights.”
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Meanwhile, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's office released a statement calling it "unbelievable the Governor of the state of Missouri would seek advice from one of the most divisive leaders in our generation to overpower the discretion of a locally elected prosecutor.”
"Today, both the Governor and Donald Trump came after me for doing my job and investigating a case," the statement said on Tuesday. "While they continue to play politics with the handling of this matter, spreading misinformation and distorting the truth, I refuse to do so. As I always do, I am reviewing all the available facts and the law and will apply them equally, regardless of the people involved.”
In a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr, Hawley called for a federal civil rights probe into St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s investigation into the McCloskey family for using firearms to defend themselves and their property against protesters.
“This is an unacceptable abuse of power and threat to the Second Amendment and I urge you to consider a federal civil rights investigation into the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office to determine whether this investigation and impending prosecution violates this family’s constitutional rights,” Hawley wrote to Barr on Thursday.
“There is no question under Missouri law that the McCloskeys had the right to own and use their firearms to protect themselves from threatened violence, and that any criminal prosecution for these actions is legally unsound,” Hawley continued. “The only possible motivation for the investigation, then, is a politically motivated attempt to punish this family for exercising their Second Amendment rights.”
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Meanwhile, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's office released a statement calling it "unbelievable the Governor of the state of Missouri would seek advice from one of the most divisive leaders in our generation to overpower the discretion of a locally elected prosecutor.”
"Today, both the Governor and Donald Trump came after me for doing my job and investigating a case," the statement said on Tuesday. "While they continue to play politics with the handling of this matter, spreading misinformation and distorting the truth, I refuse to do so. As I always do, I am reviewing all the available facts and the law and will apply them equally, regardless of the people involved.”
McCloskey has been characterized as your typical right-wing gun-nut loon, though any Second Amendment afficionado could look at the video of his challenge to the protesters, and particularly that of Patty (for a minute you might be tempted to think her pistol is a wine glass based on how she’s holding it) and conclude no dyed-in-the-wool Republican would show that kind of atrocious muzzle discipline.
In fact, he’s a personal injury and criminal defense lawyer. McCloskey is one of Those Guys.
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Buy a million dollar house on a private street in an exclusive gated community, and you’ve purchased the right not to have mobs of idiots parading in front of your house shouting obscenities and threats. And yet while the soyboys of Antifa seem to have less vim and vigor than advertised when it comes to playing suburban commando with their demonstrations, this does not appear true of the increasingly bold Black Lives Matter gang.
Not that there is much difference between the two. Both Antifa and Black Lives Matter are explicitly Marxist revolutionary organizations making absurd demands for the voluntary destruction of American law, economics and culture. And a Mark McCloskey buys himself no indulgences by having taken on a civil rights case or two. The revolution has no allies, you see; only participants and enemies, whether current or future.
One gets the impression that if the weak urban Democrat leaders who allow the kind of lawlessness which took hold at Portland Place over the weekend, there will be more of these incidents.
A lot more.
https://spectator.org/the-revolution-comes-to-portland-place/
In fact, he’s a personal injury and criminal defense lawyer. McCloskey is one of Those Guys.
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Buy a million dollar house on a private street in an exclusive gated community, and you’ve purchased the right not to have mobs of idiots parading in front of your house shouting obscenities and threats. And yet while the soyboys of Antifa seem to have less vim and vigor than advertised when it comes to playing suburban commando with their demonstrations, this does not appear true of the increasingly bold Black Lives Matter gang.
Not that there is much difference between the two. Both Antifa and Black Lives Matter are explicitly Marxist revolutionary organizations making absurd demands for the voluntary destruction of American law, economics and culture. And a Mark McCloskey buys himself no indulgences by having taken on a civil rights case or two. The revolution has no allies, you see; only participants and enemies, whether current or future.
One gets the impression that if the weak urban Democrat leaders who allow the kind of lawlessness which took hold at Portland Place over the weekend, there will be more of these incidents.
A lot more.
https://spectator.org/the-revolution-comes-to-portland-place/
Missouri governor says he'd pardon St. Louis couple if they are charged for brandishing guns at protesters
Speaking on "The Marc Cox Morning Show" on 97.1 FM in St. Louis, Parson was asked about an investigation circuit attorney Kim Gardner launched into Mark and Patricia McCloskey. The two were seen in widely shared footage from June pointing guns at a group of protesters who were walking down their street as part of a demonstration.
The McCloskeys claimed in a police report that they felt threatened by the demonstrators and feared that they would assault them or destroy their property. But Gardner said that she would look into the events, noting at the outset of her probe that "we will not tolerate the use of force against those exercising their First Amendment rights."
Parson strongly pushed back against the impetus for the investigation, saying that the McCloskeys "did what they legally should do."
"A mob does not have the right to charge your property. They had every right to protect themselves," he said.
Asked whether he would consider a pardon if charges were filed, Parsons said, "I think that's exactly what would happen."
Speaking on "The Marc Cox Morning Show" on 97.1 FM in St. Louis, Parson was asked about an investigation circuit attorney Kim Gardner launched into Mark and Patricia McCloskey. The two were seen in widely shared footage from June pointing guns at a group of protesters who were walking down their street as part of a demonstration.
The McCloskeys claimed in a police report that they felt threatened by the demonstrators and feared that they would assault them or destroy their property. But Gardner said that she would look into the events, noting at the outset of her probe that "we will not tolerate the use of force against those exercising their First Amendment rights."
Parson strongly pushed back against the impetus for the investigation, saying that the McCloskeys "did what they legally should do."
"A mob does not have the right to charge your property. They had every right to protect themselves," he said.
Asked whether he would consider a pardon if charges were filed, Parsons said, "I think that's exactly what would happen."
St. Louis prosecutor ordered crime lab to reassemble Patricia McCloskey's gun
Assistant Circuit Attorney Chris Hinckley ordered crime lab staff members to field strip the handgun and found it had been assembled incorrectly. Specifically, the firing pin spring was put in front of the firing pin, which was backward, and made the gun incapable of firing, according to documents obtained by 5 On Your Side.
Firearms experts then put the gun back together in the correct order and test-fired it, finding that it worked, according to the documents.
Crime lab workers photographed the disassembly and reassembly of the gun, according to the documents.
Patricia McCloskey and her husband, Mark McCloskey, have said the handgun Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters was inoperable because they had used it as a prop during a lawsuit they once filed against a gun manufacturer. In order to bring it into a courtroom, they made it inoperable.
Assistant Circuit Attorney Chris Hinckley ordered crime lab staff members to field strip the handgun and found it had been assembled incorrectly. Specifically, the firing pin spring was put in front of the firing pin, which was backward, and made the gun incapable of firing, according to documents obtained by 5 On Your Side.
Firearms experts then put the gun back together in the correct order and test-fired it, finding that it worked, according to the documents.
Crime lab workers photographed the disassembly and reassembly of the gun, according to the documents.
Patricia McCloskey and her husband, Mark McCloskey, have said the handgun Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters was inoperable because they had used it as a prop during a lawsuit they once filed against a gun manufacturer. In order to bring it into a courtroom, they made it inoperable.
PsyOps
Pixelated
Clearly tampering with evidence.
Once again, we have a government bent on fabricating a crime where it never happened. We have a government who will ignore criminal activity while prosecuting law-abiding people who exercise their constitutional rights to keep and bear arms and self-defense. There is a special kind of evil that has infected our government and legal system.