Governor pardons US couple who waved guns at BLM protesters

The couple had been charged with felony misuse of a weapon but were embraced as folk heroes by the Republican party.

A United States couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters marching past their mansion in the state of Missouri last year have been pardoned of misdemeanour convictions by the state’s governor. Mark and Patricia McCloskey stood barefoot on their St Louis property and waved guns as the peaceful protesters marched by on June 28, 2020. The demonstration was part of a larger racial justice movement that swept the US in the wake of the killings of several Black people by police, including George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.