A St. Louis grand jury today indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the husband and wife who brandished weapons at hundreds of peaceful protestors who marched by their house in a suburb, on gun charges and tampering with evidence, KSDK NBC-5 News reports.
The pair have become icons for the conservative gun-rights and anti social justice movements embedded in the republican Party. They were invited to address the republican National Convention where they propagated the ridiculous claim that Democrats want to eliminate the suburbs.
In a pre-recorded message at the RNC, the McCloskeys claimed that a bit of legislation sponsored by Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden that would require real estate developers to consider the cost of housing to ensure they were available to people of all races and backgrounds, is actually a ruse to destroy all suburbs. Though the McCloskeys didn’t explicitly say it, they were scared that people unlike them–i.e., non-white–would move into the neighborhood.
The tampering with evidence charge apparently stems from the damaging one of the weapons the couple brandished during the July protests so it could not fire.
Missouri’s republican Governor, Mike Parson, has declared that he will pardon the couple if they are convicted. He made the statement even before the couple was charged.