Records expunged for St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters | AP News

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020. Now they want their guns back.

Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a request in January to have the convictions wiped away. Judge Joseph P. Whyte wrote in an order Wednesday that the purpose of an expungement is to give people who have rehabilitated themselves a second chance, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. City prosecutors and police opposed the expungements.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    43·
    26 days ago

    The asshole…

    Joseph P. Whyte is a circuit judge for the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court (Division 7) of Missouri. He was appointed to the bench by former Governor Eric Greitens [R] in 2018.

    trellis.law/judge/joseph.p.whyte

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      17·
      26 days ago

      Let’s dream bigger. A right-wing billionaire fills up his 737 to the brim with those three turds, Kyle Rittenhouse, the GOP justices of the supreme court, GOP reps, GOP senators, and whoever else I’m forgetting. On their way to his private island in the Caribbean - there’s extreme turbulence caused by climate change along with a freak wind shear. Or maybe it’s actually a divine wind. Anyway - the plane crashes right into the Atlantic. There are no survivors. And zero pity for the crew. They were toxic GOP too. In the aftermath a local country uses an obscure 1700s admiralty law to grab the island via eminent domain and turn the hotel-sized complex into public housing.

      The US threatens the country and says their will be “consequences” but the local country is ready for that and the billionaire’s corruption, criminality, and “relations of unknown nature with minors” are leaked to the media. The US quietly drops the whole thing.

      The word kamikaze means “divine wind,” a reference to a typhoon that fortuitously dispersed a Mongol invasion fleet threatening Japan from the west in 1281.

      C’mon lathe. I know it’s a really big ask but can’t we have at least some improbable and fantastic news?

      -–

      Ninja edit

      Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, and Kiss were to be the musical acts and they die too.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          11·
          26 days ago

          Gene Simmons is a vile Zionist. He’s an Israeli-American. He was born there and moved the US as a kid. I assume that Paul Stanley (the rhythm guitarist) is equally bad but he’s very quiet about his beliefs - as far as I know. I think at this point any other member of the band is a salaried employee that they can shitcan at any time if they want.

          • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            15·
            26 days ago

            There’s this old generation of aged glam rock stars, KKKiss included, who are virulently anti-trans and typically pretty queerphobic in general.

            MFers, you do realise that you built an entire career out of wearing makeup, heels, sequins, and transgressing gender norms don’t you?

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    18·
    26 days ago

    That couple… It must be so awful to constantly live in fear and hate. Always triple locking the doors looking at the camera footage suspicious of anyone it public that doesn’t pass the color check

    Fuck these crackers

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      4·
      25 days ago

      Makes me wonder where these people get the energy to be so goddamn mad and hateful all the time. Like, surely it should just be exhausting living like that?

      • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        25 days ago

        It’s fox news. It’s terror brainwashing for domestic control and of course it if bleeds it ledes as they say, I think they are victims of the information war

        But still, fuck these crackers

        • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          2·
          25 days ago

          Oh for sure, I meant more in a personal sense rather than what makes them angry. When I get mad I get exhausted the rest of the day, no idea how these people manage to stay mad and jump at invisible enemies all the time, it just sounds like an exhausting way to live. Like, it crosses a line where not being a constant shithead would just be easier for them. Yet they continue to be the worst version of themselves they could be.