Remember the goofy white folks who made it a point to come out of their lavish home waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters who werenβt even bothering them? Well, what do you know? It turns out that brandishing weapons against peaceful protesters is kind of their thing, as the vigilante couple left their home again to show support for Kyle Rittenhouse, aka Phantom Teardrops, during his murder trial in Kenosha, Wis. on Monday.
According to the New York Daily News, Mark McCloskey and Patricia McCloskey sat their indignant asses in the courtroom and listened as lawyers made closing arguments in the case of the 17-year-old asshole who brought an AR-15 weapon to a nonviolent protest; because some white people love buildingsβwhich were the only things being destroyedβmore than people.
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Jurors deliberated for more than eight hours Tuesday and are expected to resume deliberations on Wednesday, the Daily News reports.
Mark McCloskey said he and his wife were supporting Rittenhouse because they βfeel forβ him, according to Insider.
From the Daily News:
Mark McCloskey stood outside his home on June 28, 2020 holding an AR-15 as civil rights protesters passed by on June 28, 2020. That was also Rittenhouseβs weapon of choice during his encounter with BLM activists in August 2020. Patricia McCloskey was armed with a handgun.
βWe think heβs been politically persecuted, as were we, and weβre hoping that the jury finds him not guilty on all counts and he can go home a free man,β Mark McCloskey told Fox News.
Some protesters shouted at the 64-year-old personal injury attorney, while others showed support as he tried to speak to a reporter outside the courthouse. The staunch conservative is running for a senate seat in Missouri. He blamed βcancel cultureβ for Rittenhouseβs predicament.
Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault and Patricia McCloskey copped to second-degree harassment in June. They were both later pardoned by Missouriβs GOP governor in August.
Itβs important to note that protesters were merely walking past the McCloskeysβ home as they headed to the house of the mayor of St. Louis, Lyda Krewson. See, they wanted nothing to do with the McCloskeys until the couple came out of their home brandishing weapons because they just couldnβt sit inside and drink their NescafΓ©.
But donβt worry; shortly after the gun-wielding couple was pardoned, they stood outside of the St. Louis courthouse and told everyone outside that theyβd βdo it againββand of course they would, because America doesnβt punish deputized whiteness. Hell, it was how America was raised.
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