What planet do these people live on !
Law & Crime are on idiot watch and write
Two attorneys in St. Louis who pointed firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters had one of their guns seized by a city prosecutor who executed a search and seizure warrant on Friday. Their other gun was surrendered to police on Saturday.
Personal injury attorneys Mark McCloskey and Patricia McCloskey went viral in late June after being caught on video holding what appears to be an AR-15 style rifle and an extremely small pistol, respectively.
The rifle is now in the possession of city authorities.
“We complied with the search warrant. They took my AR,” Mark McCloskey told local right-wing radio host Todd Starnes on Friday. “I’m absolutely surprised by this.”
City of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner “sought weapons held by Mr. and Mrs. McCloskey during June 28, 2020 in defense of themselves and their home at time of the march,” according to the couple’s former attorney Albert Watkins.
The since-replaced attorney turned over the lesser gun to St. Louis detectives on Saturday after conferring with his former clients and their new attorney Joel Schwartz.
In comments made to various media outlets, the Watkins and Schwartz attorneys have attempted to develop something of a defense, seemingly in anticipation of criminal charges.
Watkins told the St. Louis American that Mark McCloskey had the rifle’s safety engaged at all times and claimed that his ex-client never had his finger on the trigger. Schwartz gave a similar story to the Associated Press, saying that Patricia McCloskey’s gun was never “operable” during the incident and is still not capable of firing.
