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St. Louis couple Mark, Patricia McCloskey pay fines, lose guns in guilty plea over encounter with rioters
'If we didn’t have somebody named George Soros in the world, we never would have been charged with anything,' Mark McCloskey said
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By Michael Ruiz | Fox News
The St. Louis, Mo., couple who went viral after staring down a group of protesters from their front porch have agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges in connection with the incident, pay fines and lose the guns seized during the investigation.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, two attorneys in their 60s, were charged in the summer of 2020 after a swarm of Black Lives Matter protesters broke down an iron gate and ignored a "No Trespassing" sign on their private street. The couple said they felt threatened and armed themselves before heading outside to warn off the crowd, which was on its way to the former mayor’s home. No one was hurt.
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"They dropped all the weapons charges and they charged me with the lowest level of misdemeanor, which is something called assault four, which alleges that I purposely placed at least one other person in apprehension of immediate physical injury," Mark McCloskey told Fox News over the phone after returning from court Thursday. "I said, ‘Well, I guess I did. That was all point of the guns.’"
McCloskey said he will pay a fine of $750, and his wife will pay an additional penalty on a different misdemeanor charge. He said they planned to pay them off Friday.
"It’s the value of the Second Amendment," McCloskey said. "It’s kind of humorous for me at any rate, the charge they finally settled on for me, because it’s exactly what I did do. That’s the whole point of the Second Amendment. We stood out there with guns, and that placed them in imminent fear of physical injury, and they back off."
The couple’s guns, seized after their initial arrests last year, will be destroyed, even though McCloskey’s attorney asked in court for the judge to allow his rifle to be donated to a charity auction.
"The good news is we’re not in front of charges now, so I don’t have any problem getting myself another AR," he said.
The end result is what should have happened from the get-go if the incident hadn’t been politicized by the local prosecutor, McCloskey said.
"If we didn’t have somebody named George Soros in the world, we never would have been charged with anything," he said.
The case’s initial prosecutor, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, was sidelined by a judge and replaced with a special prosecutor after flaunting the ongoing proceedings in fundraising emails.
Die Handhaltung ist – das haben wir ja schon festgestellt – durchaus verbesserungswürdig. Aber direkt strafbar ist sie nicht.
Da hat sich also die (schwarze) Staatsanwältin Kimberly M. Gardner doch etwas zu weit aus dem Fenster gelehnt und ihren Wählern etwas versprochen, was sie nicht halten konnte, weil es nicht der Gesetzeslage entsprach. Der Attorney General hat dazu ja einige Zeit danach auch schon Tadelndes über sie gesagt.
Nun werden also die Waffen doch eingezogen, der Anwalt zahlt eine geringe Summe, die ihm nicht wehtut, ist nicht vorbestraft und kauft sich ein neues AR.
Soweit so der Gesetzeslage folgend.
Das dürfte etwa unserer Einstellung gegen Geldauflage entsprechen?
Was aber hat nun Soros mit der Sache zu tun, ohne den das alles nicht passiert wäre?
(Der wackere Anwalt McCloskey hat ja schon angekündigt, nach seinen Spenden für BLM nunmehr für die Reps kandidieren zu wollen.)
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