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McCloskeys due to appear in court on firearm charges on Monday morning

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Mark and Patricia McCloskey, both charged with felony misuse of firearms, will have their first court appearance today (Monday).

The couple, who brandished firearms outside their home as Black Lives Matter marchers walked by, are listed as appearing in two separate hearings in St. Louis City Circuit Court.

Patricia McCloskey will appear at 9 a.m. before Judge Craig Higgins while her husband is due before Judge Michael Colona. Court officials told the St. Louis Record there are no motions pending and that the hearing will be to set the docket.

An attorney for the couple did not respond to requests for comment. The couple were guest speakers at the Republican National Convention last week, and have made several appearances on various network and cable television channels.

This followed the June 28 march by several hundred demonstrators who passed by their house on a private street.

Mark McCloskey came out with a semi-automatic rifle and his wife emerged with a handgun.

They claimed that the protesters knocked down a gate to gain entrance to their street. Protesters say that the gate was open and that any damage happened later.

"They broke the gate down," Patricia McCloskey said on Fox & Friends. "They broke it open, then they broke what was left of it down to the ground, an iron fence, and came in and started screaming threats from the beginning. They had weapons, they had fire material."

In the interview, Patricia McCloskey said: "They want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family home zoning." She says the actions "would bring crime, lawlessness and low-quality apartments into thriving suburban neighborhoods."

She added: "These are the policies that are coming to a neighborhood near you. Your family will not be safe in the radical Democrats' America."

Mark McCloskey described St. Louis as a "very dangerous place."

"This is a prosecutor who has a remarkably low prosecution rate, a remarkably low conviction rate, and I think she's just trying to make an example out of anybody who's willing to stand up against the inherent lawlessness and violence in St. Louis," he said of St. Louis Circuit attorney Kim Gardner. 

"What you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to any one of you who are watching from quiet neighborhoods around our country,” his wife said.

"They actually charged us with felonies for daring to defend our home,” Mark McCloskey said.

“Whether it’s the defunding of police, ending cash bail so criminals can be released back out on the streets the same day to riot again, or encouraging anarchy and chaos on our streets, it seems as if the Democrats no longer view the government’s job as protecting honest citizens from criminals, but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens.”

Gardner, who made the decision to charge the couple, told Mother Jones magazine in an interview that she was surprised that President Trump would "inject himself in the prosecutorial discretion of a local prosecutor, who investigates and reviews potential criminal activity in their jurisdiction, which we do every day without fanfare or political pandering."

She added: "Second, it increased the death threats that I got, and it put myself and my family in danger. The president chose to misdirect his energy, with other Missouri officials, the AG, as well as the governor and Senator Josh Hawley, to pander to a base, to racially divide, when we should be focused on this COVID-19 pandemic.

"People were protesting outside my house. I was called a Marxist, I was called a tyrant. People put a Hitler mustache on my picture that I was using to run for reelection, and I had the most vile death threats where a person would say they wished a bullet was put in my head, that I was hung from the tree by the KKK."

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