Imagine the tremendous fear one would feel watching as a group of individuals destroyed the wrought-iron gate protecting one’s private community. This fear would quickly turn into terror as a mob of Black Lives Matter members 300 strong began to flow through the breach into the neighborhood.
One’s first reaction would surely be to call the police. But what if the police never came?
This was the situation Mark and Patricia McCloskey, both attorneys, were confronted with on the evening of June 28. When the couple saw that several members of this group were armed, they called 911, grabbed their legally owned firearms, and faced the mob that had trespassed on their property and allegedly threatened to kill them and burn down their home.
The police never showed up. According to St. Louis’ KMOV4, police claim no 911 calls had been received from that street during the time of the incident. In the absence of the police protection U.S. citizens have come to expect, the McCloskeys, armed with a rifle and a pistol, were forced to fend for themselves.
This last Friday evening, St. Louis police executed a search warrant at the McCloskey home. The police seized the rifle Mr. McCloskey had held during the encounter and were told that the pistol used by his wife was in the possession of their attorney. The Federalist’s Kylee Zempel reported on this story here.
Mark McCloskey joined Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Monday night to discuss his situation. He told Carlson “the rumor is that we are going to be indicted shortly.”
Regarding the police officers who executed the search warrant and confiscated his rifle on Friday night, McCloskey said the police, “unfortunately, are stuck between a circuit attorney [Kim Gardner] that wants to prosecute us, and their own belief that we did nothing wrong.”
McCloskey explained that “when you have certain elements of society encouraging violence, [and] at the same time asking the police to stand down, what’s the only possible result? The only possible solution is for individual citizens to stand up to defend themselves, and I’m afraid what’s being promoted is causing citizens to stand up and defend themselves so they can be chilled and abused the way we have been.”
Although the use of firearms to protect one’s life and property is the reason our founders included the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, leftists are questioning the couple’s actions. Saint Louis lawyer John Amman succinctly sums up their position. The homeowners’ actions “could possibly be classified as assault by putting protesters in fear of their safety…People have a right to threaten force if they are threatened. However, if a group of protesters is walking by a home and not doing anything to the homeowners specifically, then they don’t have the right to threaten lethal force without an imminent threat.”
Let’s get this straight. Amman is concerned that the St. Louis couple who protected their home after a group of 300 BLM members had just broken down an iron gate to enter their private community illegally may have put members of the mob in fear for their safety. Is he kidding us?
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