“THAT’S A COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS STATEMENT!” SHOULD BE THE DEFAULT RESPONSE TO PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING FREDO SAYS. CNN’s Cuomo vs. St. Louis Home Defender: You Are The Face Of “White Resistance” To Black Lives Matter.

“How do you feel about becoming the face of political resistance to the Black Lives Matter movement?” was Cuomo’s first question.

“First of all, that’s a completely ridiculous statement,” McCloskey responded. “I’m not the face of anything opposing to Black Lives Matters movement. I was a person scared for my life who was protecting my wife, my home, my hearth, my livelihood. I was a victim of a mob that came through the gate. I didn’t care what color they were. I didn’t care what their motivation was. I was frightened. I was assaulted and I was in imminent fear that they would run me over, kill me, burn my house.”

McCloskey continued, “To give you context, on June 2nd, I watched the city burn, I watched the 7-11 get smashed in, looted and burned for 40 minutes on live television with nobody showing up to do anything. I realized at that time, we’re on our own, when bad things happen, they unpredictably turn really bad, really fast. That same night, retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn was murdered. These things get very bad very quickly. And when those people came through the gate, when it was a mob, I didn’t take the time to see their birth certificates or anything else, I was defending my life, my house, my wife and what I spent 32 years building there.”

Throughout the interview, Cuomo continually doubted McCloskey’s fear that his and his wife’s lives were at risk and attempted to poke holes in how much of a security threat the protesters actually posed. He told Cuomo the reason why the protesters weren’t able to get the steps of his home is not because they weren’t going to loot it, it is because he and his wife brandished their weapons. . . .

Cuomo attempted to portray the mob that broke a private gate to gain entrance as peaceful demonstrators on their way to protest St. Louis mayor Lyda Krewson that happened upon McCloskey’s property. McCloskey said the mayor lives more than a half a mile away and the mob was in a gated community that did not provide access to the mayor’s house.

Luckily for the Democrats, elections are seldom decided by suburban voters.