We already knew that Kim Gardner, the George Soros bought-and-paid-for prosecutor in St. Louis, was a Left-wing activist whose ideas about ‘criminal justice reform’ are great if you love anarchy.
But is her office so politically tainted that it would commit acts of fraud and abuse just to get a conviction?
It seems so.
You may recall the St. Louis couple, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who were forced to defend their home with firearms late last month against a mob of Black Lives Matter supporters who literally broke into their private gated community.
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In an interview with Newsmax TV’s Greg Kelly on Tuesday, the couple discussed being charged by Gardner’s office with felonies related to their ‘brandishing’ of weapons.
Under Missouri law, using a firearm to ‘stand your ground’ against people who are threatening you is completely legal. But apparently that isn’t the case in St. Louis County, at least at the moment.
All of that said, one of the firearms – a small handgun that Patricia McCloskey held – wasn’t even operable.
“I’ll say it this way…it was, in fact, once a real gun, but it was not operational at the time,” Mark McCloskey told the host.
Why not?
The station noted that the McCloskeys have said previously (even before the Newsmax TV interview) that the weapon wasn’t functional because they once used it as a prop during a lawsuit they filed once against a gun maker. They made the weapon inoperable so they could legally bring it into court.
Joel Schwartz, the couple’s attorney, told the station that their clients intentionally put the firing pin in backwards so they could make it inoperable. Furthermore, he said that the weapon remained in its inoperable state on the evening it was used to ward off the BLM crowd, which had broken through a gate and onto private property.
Got that? So the pistol was not able to fire at all.
But, according to KDSK, “The gun Patricia McCloskey waved at protesters was inoperable when it arrived at the St. Louis police crime lab, but a member of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s staff ordered crime lab experts to disassemble and reassemble it and wrote that it was ‘readily capable of lethal use’ in charging documents filed Monday…”
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The station noted further that police did not make any statements about the handgun’s operating conditions in their probable cause statement. But again, Gardner’s office stated that the weapon was “readily capable of lethal use” after reassembling it so that it would fire.
Why does this matter? Because in Missouri, the legal standard to charge a person with a gun-related criminal act says that the firearm has to be ‘readily capable of lethal use’ — and the McCloskey gun wasn’t.
“It’s disheartening to learn that a law enforcement agency altered evidence in order to prosecute an innocent member of the community,” Joel Schwartz, the couple’s attorney, told the station.
Yes, well, that’s one way of putting it.
