Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, on Friday pardoned 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. | Jeff Roberson/AP PhotoJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — 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.
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.
Special prosecutor Richard Callahan said his investigation determined that the protesters were peaceful. “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.”
GovParsonMO doesn’t respect the rule of law. He’s the governor Missouri deserves.
Whites always cover for each other. Even the white judges are going easy on the Insurrectionists.
Same state represented by neo Nazi, HawleyMO. MO must be a great state.
Ok now let’s do pardons for non rich non white people who were “disorderly”
So, good thing they weren't black or this would have turned out differently.
No mask mandate for our state. And a pardon for a gun toating couple whose unhelpful presence is not going away. Missouri last in everything.
Every time I start thinking that I might vote for a “reasonable conservative” they remind me of why I can’t.
Is Missouri competing with Alabama in the stupid sweepstakes? If so, they're winning.
Couple? St. Louis? Guns? 🤨 *scans article Ohhh!! The McCloskey's! (The old people who defensively displayed firearms on their own property as a pissed off mob marched through a private area after breaking down a gate and refusing to leave after being told to.) I remember now.
Missouri.
The governor of Missouri is more interested in showing his Trumpian pardon powers to let criminals loose than protecting the people from them. The pardon should be to correct errors in prosecution where the innocent have been convicted not to reverse the sentences o the guilty
Of course he did. They aren't poor, black or kind. They r probably a reflection of himself.
America needs Pardon oversight.
Once again, money talks & BS walks.
Sounds like money was involved.
White rich people get pardoned but black innocent people stay in prison in MO
RockyMtnCat Yet Kevin Strickland remains in prison. Shameful.
'Social-justice demonstrators' and 'marched passed' is Politico-speak for 'and unruly mob who broke down a fence and trespassed on private property, while making threats to the homeowners.' This is some Kim Jong-un level propaganda, man.
He is a Missouri Peckerwood, full-fledged.
Shameful…on what basis did you decide?
WTH is wrong with this guy?
As he should of. They were being threatened by a mob of BLM terrorists while in their home.
Again, Missouri is in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.
super slanted story s3
Now do a story where GovParsonMO won't free a black man KevinStrickland after being in prison 43 years on murder charges and found innocent by the original prosecutors office
Thank goodness. They feared for their lives and home.
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