A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020.
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    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.

    Immediately after the judge’s ruling, Mark McCloskey demanded that the city return the two guns seized as part of his 2021 guilty plea to misdemeanor assault.

    “It’s time for the city to cough up my guns,” he told the Post-Dispatch.

    The McCloskeys said they felt threatened by the protesters, who were passing their home in June 2020 on their way to demonstrate in front of the mayor’s house nearby.

    It was one of hundreds of demonstrations around the country after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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