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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSt. Louis Lawyer Who Pointed Gun at Black Lives Matter Protesters Endorses Missouri Senate Bill 666,
Dubbed the Make Murder Legal ActMark McCloskey, an attorney and pardonee-turned-Senate candidate, is leveraging his gun-hero status to support a Missouri bill nicknamed the Make Murder Legal Act by its opponents. The legislation, which happens to be numbered S.B. 666, is a Republican-driven effort to upend one of the most standard procedures in criminal law and to expand Missouris Castle Doctrine.
Youll likely remember McCloskey as the lawyer who, along with his attorney wife Patricia McCloskey, brandished weapons as Black Lives Matter protesters marched through their gated community in June 2020 following George Floyds death. The couple pleaded guilty to firearm charges but, but Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) pardoned each of the McCloskeys after their initial twin guilty pleas.
Parsons widely-criticized decision to pardon the McCloskeys was ostensibly based on Missouris Castle Doctrine, which authorizes individuals to show force against intruders and trespassers. Now, McCloskey has endorsed a revamped self-defense law that would make it harder for the government to prosecute offenders and even some violent criminals in Missouri.
The McCloskeys attended a Missouri Senate hearing on Wednesday as S.B. 666 was debated.
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St. Louis Lawyer Who Pointed Gun at Black Lives Matter Protesters Endorses Missouri Senate Bill 666, (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Feb 2022
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An a&&hole, who pointed (and his wife) their guns at my fellow neighbors who were simply
SWBTATTReg
Feb 2022
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msongs
(67,409 posts)1. 666? the mark of the devil nt
thought too. Think they gave that any thought?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)3. Another manufactured, christofascist race hero.
SWBTATTReg
(22,129 posts)4. An a&&hole, who pointed (and his wife) their guns at my fellow neighbors who were simply
walking by their house in the Central West End in STLMO. Idiots and thugs, both of them. I hope that neighbors, and everybody
else ignores them, avoid them, etc., which from what I've heard, they are. They do not have what it takes to be a resident of STLMO. Personally, I wish they would leave the city.