Missouri Supreme Court disciplines St. Louis lawyers who waved guns at BLM protesters

[L. Coyote]

Source: kcur.org

The McCloskeys drew national headlines when they confronted a group of mostly Black protesters who had entered their gated community en route to demonstrate in front of the nearby home of a former St. Louis mayor in June 2020.

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday indefinitely suspended the law licenses of two St. Louis attorneys who waved guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020, but it stayed their suspensions and placed them on probation for a year.

The orders came after Missouri’s chief disciplinary counsel last year asked the court to suspend the law licenses of Mark McCloskey and his wife, Patricia McCloskey, in connection with their guilty pleas to misdemeanors stemming from the gun-waving incident.

The orders mean that if they violate the terms of their probation, their law licenses could be suspended indefinitely.

Read more: https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-02-08/missouri-supreme-court-disciplines-st-louis-lawyers-who-waved-guns-at-blm-protesters

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[Hekate]

1. Cool

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. This makes me smile

A suspension is a good start but these assholes need to be disbarred

[JudyM]

3. BLM could probably goad them into violating their probation by reenacting ...

[3Hotdogs]

11. Re-read it. The suspensions have been delayed.

--and may not take place at all.

[lagomorph777]

32. "...but it stayed their suspensions and placed them on probation for a year."

Exactly. No discipline at all. None.

[ShazzieB]

4. I totally forgot those two were lawyers.

I kind of hope they do something that causes them to lose their law licenses permanently, but I'm good with this suspension for now.

[multigraincracker]

6. Too bad if

they won’t be able to afford that gated community any longer.

[ShazzieB]

12. Yeah, wouldn't that just be a crying shame?

[former9thward]

26. There is no suspension.

They were put on probation for a year.

[mahina]

5. Gosh that's enough to make weekly rallies

And marches sound good.

[Skittles]

7. when BLM marched past my complex

I took some water bottles out to them (it was very hot out). These fuckers offered GUNS. Fucking TERRORISTS.

[Mawspam2]

8. Suspended for a year. This will only help...

...his fundraising for US Senate.

[lagomorph777]

18. Only a pretend suspension. Really just probation.

Look at the fine print again.

[Irish_Dem]

22. Suspension not being enforced.

They got off the hook.

[Roy Rolling]

9. Make Me Believe....

The arc of justice is long from right-wing assholes to disbarred lawyers with no income.

For an instance I’m a believer in justice.

[LiberatedUSA]

10. I still can't get over that teapot gun stance she has.

The stance that can’t decide if this is a stick up or annoyance that the manager isn’t taking her side.

[PatSeg]

17. I know

It cracks me up every time I see it. Maybe that is a "Karen gun stance"?

[Scruffy1]

13. Sound like a non-punishment to me.

It reminds me of how a lot of traffic tickets are handled for affluent white fold. Don't do again for a period of time and we will take it off the record.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Pretty much typical for white, rich, powerful.

No consequences.

[XacerbatedDem]

14. They were idiots, just trying to get on TV so they can have something to brag about.

Luckily, no one was hurt, but they deserve more than a slap on the hand, somebody might have been killed.

[lastlib]

15. So....how much campaign cash will they raise off of this?

Effing political whores......

[bucolic_frolic]

16. They seem nice

though not very lawyerly.

[NurseJackie]

19. They're human garbage!

If I recall correctly, they were constantly feuding with a nearby church or temple that has property which borders theirs. These are the same type of people who LOVE homeowner's associations for all the perceived power it gives them.

[L. Coyote]

20. Racist Nazi Cultists

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[Delphinus]

27. Oh my ...

is that third picture their home???!!!

[L. Coyote]

28. Yep, the entry.

The biggest room

[SWBTATTReg]

21. Good but not enough. Those of us that are neighbors of theirs in the Central West End,

and others throughout the STLMO area are over and done w/ these gun toting thugs. We unfortunately have enough gun violence in parts of the city without these so-called lawyers adding to the toxic mess. Personally, I'd like the city to kick them out of the city, if there was a legal way to do so. These demonstrations have been a long-time fixture on the STLMO scene (all over the region), so for someone to act in the manner they did is inexcusable. Especially since some of these very same protesters could have been their neighbors, friends, etc.

[melm00se]

24. The "indefinite suspension" punishment was playing

to the cheap seats. The court knew that any harsher punishment would have been overturned on appeal.

[L. Coyote]

25. FALSE. Who do you appeal to? This was the state Supreme Court ruling, nowhere to go.

[Deuxcents]

29. This is "discipline "?

[Emile]

30. Not in my book! They should have at least be made to give up their right to own guns!

[Deuxcents]

31. At least.

Now he’ll campaign on this n makes lots of $$. Disgusting