You're right. I couldn't find anything that says ((the mayor lives in the gated community)).
I read a lot of things that implied she does, but nothing that actually said so.
^This.
So, because the public roads were closed (by police?) they had to find another way through.
Yet another unexplored angle is whether the public roads that were closed
were precisely the shortest paths to the Mayor's house,
and that they were closed precisely to keep the mob away from there.
From the ariel picture of their property and the picture of the residents and rioters confrontation, the porch is ~100' from the property line and the rioters look like they are within maybe 20' of the porch.
The only part of the house that's ~100' from the property line
is the east face, which is ~90' from the high wall bordering Kingshighway Blvd.
I speculate you've only seen photos of rioters
~27' south of the "porch".
Look at the overhead of the property and compare it to the video.
They were well off the sidewalk and right up to the stairs of the house that the couple was standing on.
The closest thing I've seen yet to what you describe
is a photo of one Black guy facing
away from the house,
with
one of his two heels on the lawn, and the other one on the sidewalk.
Which is not "well off the sidewalk".
Just so I know the rules, are all the members of a gated community required to give permission before a non-member enters the shared parts of the property? ... I think the answer is “no”.
...
It’s possible, although highly unlikely, that someone who lives on the street is sympathetic to the BLM cause and invited them to cut through. But the McCloskeys couldn’t have known if that was or wasn’t the case.
Boy have you got
that right, at least in Mass:
In 1943, the SJC held in Commonwealth v. Richardson, 313 Mass. 632
that proselytes who rang a random apartment's remote doorbell
and got buzzed in to the common hallway, were allowed
to wander up and down the hallways and leaflet apartments.
A tenant let them in, and the landlord had no right to tell them to GTFO.
Firearms were seized without due process ...
There's a photo of the search warrant in NES.
They were almost certainly trespassing, I’d bet my house on it.
...
Add to that the McClosky’s history of suing everyone (for their own gain, not just for their clients) and the fights about what they own they’ve had with the HOA, and their neighbors don’t have anything nice to say about them, ...
You've highlighted another great angle.
The McCloskeys may have already been so hated in the neighborhood,
that in the highly unlikely event that any rioters get jacked up for trespass
long after the fact, it would probably not be hard to find some neighbor
who would be willing to testilie that they invited that individual in.
Again, this false equivalency is absurd. So your several dozen guests might just break a gate, ...
The way the gate is broken pointing inward implies to me
that it was vandalized by someone who already gained entrance.
What a fantastic photo! Thank you!
That looks like
the portal at the midpoint of the north border of the community.
The gate that is
only a tenth of a mile from
the mayor's house...
Insert meme: "They chose poorly"
If (
if) the cops closed public streets to route the rioters away from the Mayor's house,
they may not have chosen badly at all. They didn't succeed in keeping the rioters away,
but they slowed them down, and they generated Yet Another Gun Control incident
in the process.
I can't find the picture now - but if you go look at the aerial shots of the McKloskey's property - there is a driveway that looks like it runs across one side of the house - over to what looks like maybe a garage behind the house - and then it goes out to the street. Well some of the pictures I saw looked like some of the protestors were indeed on the property - because they appeared to be on that driveway - which would put them squarely on their property.
That driveway is up against the north and west sides of their personal property.
I have not seen any photos of any protestors on that whatsoever.
Who owns the private road? I'm guessing that in a situation like that - all of the homeowners on the street belong to some sort of condo association type thing - which "owns" the road. The McKloskeys probably pay a sizeable fee every year to maintain that "private" road. So technically they may not "own" it - but they are definitely probably shareholders.
The nature of their ownership is probably a "tenancy in common",
which is
an actual thing.
2. They destroyed the gate that the no tresspassing/private property/etc signs were posted on to gain entry
Nope; there's video of protestors streaming through the gate undamaged.
Someone vandalized it later.
3. the armed mob proceeded onto the property of the couple in question and threatened them
So far I've seen a photo of one guy with one heel of his sneaker
on their personal property (lawn).
The video I've seen is utter chaos,
but the mob seems to be running their mouths while staying on the sidewalk.
There was one photo, i can't find, that shows a few of the protesters on the lawn.
I can totally believe it happened in the course of the riot,
but I haven't seen a photo of it.
Which part of the locked and posted/no trespassing gate was ambiguous?
Where's your evidence that the gate was locked?
The popular video shows a cat-herder wearing a suit
was holding open a gate that looks undamaged.
Normal procedure:
Due Process
If no charges were made then no crime was suspected and therefore there is no legal standing for the taking of property, even temporarily (yes there are times where a temporary seizure is proper but this isn't one of them)
Probable cause is sufficient to get a search warrant - "charges" are not necessary.
She acted in a manner consistent with an untrained, inexperienced person who is in deep fear for their personal safety - Just like the average person on the street.
Actually, I'll bet she was so scared that only two things kept her from busting a cap:
- She's a big-time lawyer, and knew how bad the legal consequences would be if she shot into a crowd.
- The handgun allegedly doesn't work, and may not even have been loaded.
I'm sure she was terrified. But considering how she was waving that pistol around,
I think that only her legal experience kept her from declaring Go Time.
Nope, that was the main group that went the RIGHT WAY, down a public road.
That photo of a (rent-a-cop?) smoking a cigarette, holding a gate open
looks to me like the rioters who hassled the McCloskeys (not some hypothetical "main group")
got all the way through the development by the shortest route,
and ended up on a public street a tenth of a mile from the Mayor's house.
Does anybody know where the NRA is on this topic?
(And considering the parties in this horror show, that may be prudent).
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