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Published March 6, 2023 4:00am EST


MCCLOSKEYS SPEAK OUT AFTER ESCAPING SOROS-BACKED DA FELONY CRUSADE FOR
'DEFENDING' HOME FROM BLM


MARK MCCLOSKEY SAID, DA KIMBERLY GARDNER IS 'JUST AS DUMB AS A SACK OF HAMMERS'

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MCCLOSKEYS SPEAK OUT AGAINST SOROS-BACKED ST. LOUIS DA: 'OUT OF CHAOS COMES
TYRANNY'

Mark and Patricia McCloskey speak to Fox News Digital about Soros-backed St.
Louis District Attorney Kimberly Gardner and claim her policies are
intentionally causing chaos.

EXCLUSIVE – Mark and Patricia McCloskey – two married St. Louis personal injury
lawyers in their 60s who faced the "worst days of our lives" after they were
slapped with felony charges by a Soros-backed district attorney for "defending"
their home during the Black Lives Matter riots – spoke out to Fox News Digital
about finally breaking free from restrictions on practicing law. 




"The only unforgivable crime in America is standing up against the left," Mark
McCloskey told Fox News Digital. 

A car burns at the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Tucker Boulevard
on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News
Service via Getty Images)

Mark said that he and his wife were victims of a "political persecut[ion]" by DA
Kimberly Gardner over a June 2020 clash with BLM, which they continue to
maintain was an act of self-defense. 



After George Floyd's deadly encounter with police, pro-BLM rioters destroyed and
burned businesses in St. Louis. Additionally, four police officers were shot and
a retired police captain – David Dorn – was killed.



WIFE OF OFFICER MURDERED IN ST. LOUIS BLM RIOTS SAYS DA KIM GARDNER TO BLAME:
'CRIMINALS GET MORE RIGHTS'



Anna Dorn speaks about her husband David, who was killed during the Black Lives
Matter riots in 2020. (Fox News Digital)

It was within the backdrop of the ongoing rioting that the St. Louis couple
stood outside their homes, brandished weapons and waved them at BLM protesters
who broke through an iron gate, ignored a "No Trespassing" sign, and
screamed threats of arson and rape at them, the McCloskeys said. Protest leaders
counter-claimed that the march was peaceful, and no threats were made. 

"We knew that when we saw the video [of the clash with BLM]… that it was too big
of an event for the left to avoid punishing us for it."



BIDEN OFFICIAL MOCKS 'OPPRESSION' VOICED BY 'WHITE PROTESTERS' AGAINST
LOCKDOWNS, SHARES DEFENSE OF BLM RIOTS

A fire set in the middle of a street is pictured during a protest against the
death in Minneapolis police custody of African-American man George Floyd, June
1, 2020.  (REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant)

The McCloskeys were both charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon by DA
Gardner, who is currently facing pressure to resign. In contrast, nine BLM
protesters outside the McCloskey home were charged with misdemeanor trespassing,
which prosecutors later dropped. 



"In our case, we were [considered by Gardner] the worst criminals in St. Louis –
despite the 262 murders we had in 2020 – by standing on our front porch and
defending ourselves. We got leapfrogged over 6,000 other cases, other serious
felonies," Mark said. 




Gardner then made a blunder on her campaign – she used the McCloskeys for
fundraising, which caused her to lose the case from her roster over ethical
concerns. A judge ruled Gardner "initiated a criminal prosecution for political
purposes." 

"Gardner is just as dumb as a sack of hammers," Mark said, referring to
Gardner's campaign blunder. 

Debris lies on the sidewalk along Tucker Avenue from businesses that sustained
damage from overnight protests on June 2, 2020 in St Louis, Missouri. (Michael
B. Thomas/Getty Images)

After the McCloskeys guilty plea to misdemeanor charges, the Missouri Bar
Association disciplinary council "decided that what we did in standing on our
front porch defending ourselves was a crime of moral turpitude, that we were
evil people and that we should not be allowed to practice law anymore."




The Missouri Bar requested the state's Supreme Court to suspend their licenses.

Missouri's Supreme Court suspended the McCloskeys’ law licenses in February
2022, only to later put them on probation for one year. 

As of Feb. 9, Mark finished his community service hours, he reported to Fox News
Digital. Patricia has nearly completed her service – she has a few more homework
assignments. 



Armed homeowners Mark T. and Patricia N. McCloskey stand in front their house as
they confront protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's house on
June 28, 2020.  (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service via
Getty Images)

MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER CLAIMS IT'S 'WHITE SUPREMACY' TO OPPOSE THIEVERY: 'BURN
THIS MOTHERF----- TO THE GROUND'




"The good news for us is that we're self-employed. We don't owe anybody
anything. There's nothing they can do to us. And they can try to cancel us all
that they want to," Mark said. "But I'm going to be… saying the truth… But we
anticipate that they will continue to try to find ways to make our lives
miserable."

Mark and Patricia both support Gardner's removal from office as she faces
pressure to resign, calling St. Louis a "war zone" under her watch. "The office
is bizarrely, intentionally – in my opinion – [involved in] malpractice," Mark
said. 



"This is like they're two different nations. [There is a] nation of people that
respect the Constitution and believe that individuals have a God given right to
be free and self-determination and a duty to have self-respect and integrity.
And [then the people who]… want to crush freedom and crush independence and
create a single world socialist government."

In a, Jan. 13, 2020 file photo, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner speaks in
St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)

"They're just disregarding crime," Mark said about Soros-backed district
attorneys like Gardner. 



"And because it helps them politically, they can take the position that they're
counteracting generations of systemic racism and that putting people behind bars
is White supremacist propaganda and that the laws are designed to oppress and
not for any other reason. And therefore to refuse to enforce the law is to the
benefit of diversity, equity and inclusion."



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"I absolutely do believe there's an intent to create chaos. It's not accidental.
It's not incompetence [at prosecuting crime]," Mark said about Gardner's
soft-on-crime policies. 



"Because out of chaos comes tyranny. You demoralize people, you give them an
environment of chaos, lawlessness, poverty and uncertainty. And what do they do?
They ask somebody else to fix their problems, they ask the government to come in
and provide a solution. And that's what all this is about. And it's not just
happening in St. Louis, but in every major city." 




Fox News' Danielle Wallace, Louis Casiano, Lawrence Richard, Paul Best
contributed to this report. 

Hannah Grossman is an Associate Editor at Fox News Digital.



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