KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday disciplined Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark McCloskey, the lawyer who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in a widely publicized gun-waving incident during a police brutality protest in June 2020.
McCloskey's law license will be on probation for one year. The court suspended the St. Louis attorney's license indefinitely, but held off on imposing the suspension — giving the justices a hammer to hold over his head in case he steps out of line.
McCloskey and his wife, Patricia McCloskey, also an attorney, were captured on video holding guns and confronting nonviolent protesters from their lawn as they headed past their house on the way to then-St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's home. No shots were fired and no one was injured.
