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St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

Postby jdege on Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:32 pm

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/20/mark-and-patricia-mccloskey-st-louis-couple-face-f/
St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns at protest
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who made headlines protecting their home from rioters, were charged Monday with felonies in the incident.

The couple held a rifle and handgun last month outside their house when protesters broke down a private gate and headed past their residence. Mr. McCloskey said they feared for their property and lives.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has charged the couple with brandishing weapons, accusing the couple of waving the guns at protesters in a threatening way.
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Re: St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

Postby jdege on Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:50 pm

https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-ag-moves-to-dismiss-charges-against-couple-who-pointed-guns-at-crowd
Missouri AG moves to dismiss charges against couple who pointed guns at crowd
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Monday moved to dismiss charges brought by St. Louis’ top prosecutor against a couple who pointed guns at a crowd marching to the mayor’s home last month, Fox News has learned.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, the city’s top prosecutor, said Mark and Patricia McCloskey – both personal injury attorneys in their 60s – will be charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon following the June 28 incident.

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Within hours of the ruling, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a brief seeking to dismiss Gardner’s charges against the McCloskeys on the grounds that their Second Amendment rights are being violated.
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Re: St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:54 pm

This is what is wrong with our society.
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Re: St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

Postby LarryFlew on Mon Jul 20, 2020 9:44 pm

THIS from one of the states with decent laws and some bs dumbocrat still does that???????
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Postby Rip Van Winkle on Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:05 am

LarryFlew wrote:THIS from one of the states with decent laws and some bs dumbocrat still does that???????

It's in St. Louis. I'd expect nothing less.
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Postby Rip Van Winkle on Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:06 am

Holland&Holland wrote:This is what is wrong with our society.

Leftist virtue signaling.
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Postby Jackpine Savage on Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:34 am

Communist insurrection.
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Re: St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

Postby Lumpy on Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:47 pm

As I understand it, they're accused of crossing the line into whatever that state's equivalent of "brandishing" is. Lesson of the day, keep guns holstered or slung until you have a target.
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Re: St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

Postby Ghost on Tue Jul 21, 2020 3:17 pm

Good for the AG
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Re: St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

Postby Holland&Holland on Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:32 pm

Lumpy wrote:As I understand it, they're accused of crossing the line into whatever that state's equivalent of "brandishing" is. Lesson of the day, keep guns holstered or slung until you have a target.

So BLM is for deadly force only? Got it
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Re: St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

Postby hammAR on Thu Jul 23, 2020 3:09 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:So BLM is for deadly force only? Got it

Well they have racked up a body count........ :o
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Re: St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

Postby Holland&Holland on Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:11 pm

hammAR wrote:
Holland&Holland wrote:So BLM is for deadly force only? Got it

Well they have racked up a body count........ :o

Ya but that was all for the greater good.
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Re: St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

Postby Rip Van Winkle on Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:30 am

Then there's this.

ST. LOUIS — The gun Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters was inoperable when it arrived at the St. Louis police crime lab, but a member of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's staff ordered crime lab experts to disassemble and reassemble it and wrote that it was “readily capable of lethal use” in charging documents filed Monday, 5 On Your Side has learned.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/gardner-staffer-ordered-crime-lab-to-reassemble-patricia-mccloskeys-gun/63-be112149-d06c-4f54-a225-6545e74b5c2d?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

People, and not the McCloskey's, need to be prosecuted for this BS.
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Re: St. Louis couple hit with felony charges for pulling guns

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Postby BigBlue on Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:44 am

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