Records expunged for St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters. They want their guns back
Evening, America, we’re Mark and Patty McCloskey were speaking to you tonight from ST Louis, Missouri, where just weeks ago you may have seen us defending our home as a mob of protesters descended on our neighborhood. America is such a great country that not only do you have the right to own a gun and use it to defend yourself, but thousands of Americans will offer you free advice on how to use it. At least that’s what we experienced. What you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to any of you who are watching from quiet neighborhoods around our country. And that’s what we want to speak to you about tonight. That’s exactly right. Whether it’s the de funding of police ending cash bail so criminals can be released back out on the streets the same day to riot again were encouraging anarchy and chaos on our streets. It seems as if the Democrats no longer view that governments job as protecting honest citizens from criminals, but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens, not a single person in the out of control mob. You saw our house was charged with a crime. But you know who waas we were. They’ve actually charged us with felonies for daring to defend our home. On top of that, consider this. The Marxist liberal activist leading the mob toe our neighborhood, stood outside our home with a bullhorn, screaming, You can’t stop the revolution! Just weeks later, that same Marxist activist one the Democrat nomination toe hold a seat in the U. S. House of Representatives in the city of ST Louis. That’s the same is winning the general election. That Marxist revolutionary is now going to be the congresswoman from the first District of Missouri. These radicals air not content with marching in the streets. They want to walk the halls of Congress. They want to take over. They want power. This is Joe Biden’s party. These are the people who will be in charge of your future and the future of your Children. They’re not satisfied with spreading the chaos and violence into our communities. They want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single family homes. Owning this forced rezoning would bring crime, lawlessness and low quality apartments into now thriving suburban neighborhoods. President Trump smartly ended this government overreach, but Joe Biden wants to bring it back. These are the policies that are coming to a neighborhood near you. So make no mistake, no matter where you live, your family will not be safe in the radical Democrats. America at this moment in history, if you stand up for yourself and for the values our country was founded on, the mob, spurred on by their allies in the media, will try to destroy you. You’ve seen us on your TV screens and Twitter feeds. You know that we’re not the kind of people who back down. Thankfully, neither is Donald Trump. President Trump will defend the God given right of every American to protect their homes and their families. But more than that, Trump’s vision for America is a country. We have an opportunity to work hard and build the life you dream of with a job you love with your Children being educated in great schools in a community where your family can play in the backyard without fear, worship in a church without shame and express your beliefs without retribution. Trump brought us the greatest economy our country had ever seen. The Democrats have brought us nothing but destruction when we don’t have basic safety and security in our communities will never be free to build a brighter future for ourselves, for our Children or for our country. That’s what’s at stake in this election. And that’s why we must re elect Donald Trump. God bless you. God bless the president and God bless these United States.
Records expunged for St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters. They want their guns back
Updated: 11:40 AM PDT Jun 6, 2024
A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020. Now they want their guns back.Video above: Mark and Patricia McCloskey speak at the RNCAttorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a request in January to have the convictions wiped away. Judge Joseph P. Whyte wrote in an order Wednesday that the purpose of an expungement is to give people who have rehabilitated themselves a second chance, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. City prosecutors and police opposed the expungements.Immediately after the judge’s ruling, Mark McCloskey demanded that the city return the two guns seized as part of his 2021 guilty plea to misdemeanor assault. Republican Gov. Mike Parson pardoned the couple weeks after the plea.“It’s time for the city to cough up my guns,” he told the Post-Dispatch.If it doesn’t, he said, he’ll file a lawsuit.The McCloskeys 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. It was one of hundreds of demonstrations around the country after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The couple also said the group was trespassing on a private street.Mark McCloskey emerged from his home with an AR-15-style rifle, and Patricia McCloskey waved a semi-automatic pistol.
A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020. Now they want their guns back.
Video above: Mark and Patricia McCloskey speak at the RNC
Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a request in January to have the convictions wiped away. Judge Joseph P. Whyte wrote in an order Wednesday that the purpose of an expungement is to give people who have rehabilitated themselves a second chance, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. City prosecutors and police opposed the expungements.
Immediately after the judge’s ruling, Mark McCloskey demanded that the city return the two guns seized as part of his 2021 guilty plea to misdemeanor assault. Republican Gov. Mike Parson pardoned the couple weeks after the plea.
“It’s time for the city to cough up my guns,” he told the Post-Dispatch.
If it doesn’t, he said, he’ll file a lawsuit.
The McCloskeys 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. It was one of hundreds of demonstrations around the country after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The couple also said the group was trespassing on a private street.
Mark McCloskey emerged from his home with an AR-15-style rifle, and Patricia McCloskey waved a semi-automatic pistol.
