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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Wed Aug 4, 2021, 06:28 AM Aug 2021

Missouri Gov. Parson keeps promise to pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey (vigilantes), who waved

gun at (BLM) protesters (cause white privilege is in your face at this point...) I felt the headline needed some adjustments.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has issued pardons to Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple whose brandishing of guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in June 2020 catapulted them to conservative stardom and launched a bid for U.S. Senate.

The McCloskeys were among 12 pardons Parson issued last week. His office made the list of names public on Tuesday.
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Parson promised soon after the incident that he would pardon the couple, who pointed a rifle and a pistol from their front lawn at several hundred protesters marching past their house on their way to the St. Louis mayor’s home. He has issued pardons on a roughly monthly basis since December to clear a backlog of about 3,000 cases that had accumulated from previous administrations.

The speed with which Parson pardoned the couple stands in contrast to the case of Kevin Strickland, a Kansas City man who has been serving four decades in prison for a 1978 triple homicide that Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said he did not commit.

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Emphasis mine

Peak white privilege. Peak anti black justice.
Could his white supremacy be more apparent. Horrid. Horrid. Horrid.
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Missouri Gov. Parson keeps promise to pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey (vigilantes), who waved (Original Post) Soph0571 Aug 2021 OP
I think Parsons is in a race for the bottom with Abbott and DeSantis. tanyev Aug 2021 #1
F-ing racists. Martin68 Aug 2021 #2
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