JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. _ In his first press briefing since recovering from COVID-19, Gov. Mike Parson said he "certainly" will pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey if they are convicted of crimes in St. Louis stemming from a June incident on their property.
The governor, responding to a question Wednesday, reiterated a pledge he made in July on radio station KFTK after St. Louis police executed a search warrant at the couple's Central West End mansion, seizing their guns.
The McCloskeys, who pointed an AR-15 rifle and a semiautomatic handgun at protesters on June 28, were indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday on charges of unlawful use of a weapon and evidence tampering. The McCloskeys confronted the protesters as they entered Portland Place, a gated private street, on their way to Mayor Lyda Krewson's residence nearby.
