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Monday, July 20, 2020
Of Interest
The Associated Press is reporting that this St. Louis couple has been charged with "felony unlawful use of a weapon for displaying guns during a racial injustice protest outside their mansion."
Here in Columbia County, in what was by all accounts a similar incident, the State Police have determined that no laws were broken by the couple with the gun.
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So WHO actually determined that there were no laws broken? Are we allowed to know their names?
ReplyDeleteThe St. Louis protesters broke down a heavy iron gate and entered a private street. This has already been widely reported, not just by FOX news. See the photos.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/us/armed-st-louis-rioters-threatened-couple-guns-attorney.amp
That’s not true. https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/video-shows-gate-was-intact-when-cwe-couple-pointed-guns-at-protesters/63-14a1582a-9372-4494-b8ee-41d5d4d71b61
DeleteThe video link that you provided shows a reporter saying that a protester told her that they didn’t break the gate. That’s all. This proves nothing.
DeleteThis St. Louis couple has a history of suing & fighting with everyone.
ReplyDeleteFrom trying to enforce a law to not allow unmarried couples from living in the neighborhood (to ban a gay couple from living there); to destroying a bee colony outside of their mansion property, owned by a Jewish Congregation who was harvesting honey and picking apples for Rosh Hashanah. And then threatened to sue them if they didn't clean it up.
They sued a dog breeder; someone who sold them a Maserati; a homeowners association; and the list goes on and on.
Missouri is the show me state and I guess waving a gun around made them think, "that'll show them"
They pretty much check off all the boxes of hate - and fill the definition of Ken & Karen quite well.
Their case was then entered as a dismissal by the AG of the state, because of their constitutional right to protect their lives and property as legal gun owners. this case is over.
ReplyDeleteIf the Fox report is accurate (I didn't have the time to check and of course I take it with a great deal of salt, but) it's merely indicative of our times: the St. Louis couple might have a cogent argument for feeling threatened (beyond their obviously heightened sense of being a down-trodden minority of white people, in suburban St. Louis, in the mid-west, but I digress). If someone beats down your gate, chances are they are not coming to deliver flowers. On the other hand in Kinderhook, we have precisely the opposite situation: a peaceful march, on public property, well within the law, is confronted with gun-waiving paranoids (at best). In the former -- criminal charges; in the latter -- sweet fuck all. I'm starting to wonder -- both as a citizen and an attorney -- what is illegal in Columbia County? Can I finally smoke a joint in public?!
ReplyDeleteExactly.
DeleteMy aunt grew up in that house. I grew up in a house in the same street. The street is called Portland Place. Portland Place, along with Westmoreland Place next door to it, is indeed a private street.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know about Missouri defend-your-castle and firearms laws, but there is no doubt that the protesters were trespassing.
Portland Place is not in the suburbs, by the way, but in what’s called the West End of the City of St. Louis. Forest Park, the St. Louis Art Museum, and Washington University are nearby.
Jock Spivy
FYI re the McCloskey prosecution:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ksdk.com/mobile/article/news/local/gardner-staffer-ordered-crime-lab-to-reassemble-patricia-mccloskeys-gun/63-be112149-d06c-4f54-a225-6545e74b5c2d
Jock Spivy