{"id":40156,"date":"2020-10-08T16:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40156"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:50:35","slug":"we-have-seen-the-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40156","title":{"rendered":"We Have Seen The Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/crime\/grand-jury-indicts-mark-and-patricia-mccloskey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Just the News<\/a> posted an article about Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple shown on video defending their home.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Al Watkins, an attorney for the couple, confirmed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/st-louis-indictments-racial-injustice-3bbed2ea6c982581e51b16123a785cfc\">Associated Press<\/a> the indictments against Mark McCloskey, 63, and Patricia McCloskey, 61. A spokeswoman for Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner declined comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Joel Schwartz, a McCloskey\u00a0attorney, told Just the News on Tuesday night that the indictment is called a &#8220;suppressed&#8221; indictment and that he&#8217;s unaware of what it states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Gardner, a Democrat, charged the McCloskeys with &#8220;flourishing&#8221; a weapon in connection with the June 28 incident in which social justice protesters entered the couple&#8217;s private, gated community during a demonstration and marched past their home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The McCloskeys have said they each went outside with a gun because they feared for the safety of themselves and their home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes with some information on Attorney Gardner:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>As previously reported\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/soros-linked-pac-donates-77000-st-louis-circuit-attorney-targeting\">Just the News<\/a>, Gardner&#8217;s campaigns have received tens of thousands of dollars\u00a0from a political action committee financed by billionaire political philanthropist\u00a0George Soros.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Gardiner has had several controversies since she assumed office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In January 2017, she opened a criminal investigation into the then-Missouri GOP Gov.\u00a0Eric Greitens. Several months later, she was forced to drop the charges for lack of evidence. In the aftermath, the\u00a0out-of-state former FBI agent she hired to\u00a0conduct the\u00a0Greitens probe has been indicted on seven felony counts counts\u00a0in connection with\u00a0perjury and evidence tampering.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are a few things to note in the video of the incident. First of all, the &#8216;protesters&#8217; broke down a gate to get to the McCloskey&#8217;s house. At that point they were trespassing. Second of all, the &#8216;protesters&#8217; threatened the McCloskeys. I truly believe that if the McCloskeys had not been outside their house with guns we would be reading their obituaries. Their Second Amendment rights need to be protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Just the News posted an article about Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple shown on video defending their home. 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