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RNC to Feature St. Louis Couple Who Threatened to Shoot Black Lives Matter Protesters

HeadlineAug 19, 2020

The Republican Party has invited a wealthy white St. Louis couple who brandished guns at Black Lives Matter protesters to speak at the Republican National Convention next week. Mark and Patricia McCloskey face felony charges over the June incident, which saw Mark point a semiautomatic assault rifle at protesters, while Patricia waived a silver pistol. Also set to speak at the RNC is Nick Sandmann, a Catholic high school student from Kentucky who was filmed grinning and smirking as he and other students surrounded a Native American demonstrator in Washington, D.C., last year, after the students taunted and mocked participants in the Indigenous Peoples March.

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