Mark and Patricia McCloskey Plead Guilty to Charges, Will Surrender Guns

The Epoch Times

The St. Louis couple who were seen holding firearms as Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists approached their home pleaded guilty to several misdemeanor charges and surrendered their guns.

Mark McCloskey, a lawyer, pleadedย guilty to a Class C misdemeanor of fourth-degree assault, while his wife, Patriciaย McCloskey, pleaded guilty toย a Class A misdemeanor of second-degree harassment. They will pay the maximum fines of $2,000 and $750, and they wonโ€™t serve any jail time.

More notably, however, the two will be forced to forfeit the weapons they were holding when they confronted BLM protesters who were marching near their home last summer.

On Thursday evening, following the guilty pleas, Mark McCloskey told Newsmax why the couple pleaded the way they did.

โ€œ[Prosecutors] dropped all the felony charges, all the gun charges, and charged me with a crime that said I purposely placed other people in apprehension of imminent fear of physical injuryโ€”and, by God, I did it,โ€ McCloskey said.

โ€œThatโ€™s what the Second Amendment was there for, and I couldnโ€™t say no to that one,โ€ he added. โ€œThatโ€™s what the guns were for. The guns were there to scare people off and make sure they didnโ€™t approach us. And thatโ€™s what the guns did,โ€ he continued.

The two have claimed in media interviews that the protesters were trespassing and noted that Black Lives Matter protesters in St. Louis and other cities have committed arson and have engaged in acts of violence. The couple previously pleaded not guilty and were slated to go to trial in November of this year.

The BLM protesters told them โ€œthat they were going to kill us,โ€ said Patricia McCloskey last year.

โ€œThey were going to come in there. They were going to burn down the house,โ€ she said, recalling what the demonstrators said. โ€œThey were going to be living in our house after I was dead, and they were pointing to different rooms and said, โ€˜Thatโ€™s going to be my bedroom, and thatโ€™s going to be the living room, and Iโ€™m going to be taking a shower in that room.’โ€

BYย JACK PHILLIPS

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