Missouri governor pardons gun-waving St. Louis lawyer couple

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Missouri's governor has pardoned Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators as they marched past the couple's St. Louis home last year.

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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.

“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. “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.” He echoed those comments in a statement issued Tuesday by his campaign and added: “Today we are incredibly thankful that Governor Mike Parson righted this wrong and granted us pardons.

Missouri’s Democratic leader contrasted Parson’s treatment of Strickland’s case with the McCloskeys in bitter denunciations of the governor’s action.

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Ugly hearts in these folks

The McCloskeys may have been pardoned but they will NEVER be forgiven for those tacky ensembles! Somebody needs to make a citizen's arrest for crimes against fashion.

Figures!!!! Smh..🤨

Never should have been charged

This is why pardon power is so important. To write the wrongs of politically motivated prosecutions.

This truly should not surprise any Black person. Justice is not color blind when you are white and privileged. You go unpunished. A pardon absolves an individual of guilt. It’s like that shit did not happen. The world knows who these racist are … we see you.

Of course he did. It is high time to begin curtailing the rights of these criminals. Governors included.

DefundFASCISTS and ALL who support them. Accountability is key in 2021!! Competence is essential in 2022!!!

go figure! (sigh)

Justice served!

Just disgusting

BRAVO!

I have cognitive dissonance! demonstrators 'for justice' can break into private territory, but not into Congress! ahahahaaa!

Trespassers, not protesters

They pointed their guns at them because they were being threatened that they were going to kill them and burn there house down tell the truth AP stop with your lies

Fuck Missouri .

The Show Me The Money State.

The Governor can do that. Authorities are forced to put them under surveillance like anyone who issues a threat of violence to the community, however.

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Lol 😆 America is a Joke

“Marched past”

Those “protesters” tore down a gate to a private community. The McCloskey’s did nothing wrong.

Desperate to change the conversation from the COVID disaster that is Missouri, Gov takes time to remind his constituents of his racist bona fides

DEPLORABLE

Yet so many Americans want to forgot about the past. Here we are. Again.

Yeah because in Missouri we respect property and if you dont you get 'the warning' as it should be everywhere!

Good. You don't get to intimidate strangers on private property just because you got a bunch of likes on TikTok.

You meant ‘dangerous mob of threatening protesters’

Great news!

When the GOP say they are for Law & Order what they really mean is they are for incarcerating people of color & exonerating rich white people & racists - oh & they only 'back the blue' if it's convenient to their agenda, if you have any doubts, ask the Capitol Police Officers.

Both McCloskey's pleaded guilty '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'

Ah yes, good to pardon criminals who say they would happily commit the crime again.

He would 🙄

🙄

Always on the white side of history, those racists

The gaslighting in this post is beyond reprehension. Go watch the video again, they could have been killed by those thugs

Klanclowns gonna Klan

DEPLORABLES...ALL OF THEM. HILLARY RIGHT AGAIN

Pardons are out of control. Some protocols/guardrails need to be implemented

DemGovs

TheDemCoalition

So defending your property is now racist 🤔? And getting a pardon means you are a white supremacy person ? But looting and burning down businesses is okay ? And if the people defending their property were non white it would have been okay ? I'm trying to understand twitter logic

It's really sad that this doesn't surprise me.

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