Jeremy Garnier, Who Streamed Night Dressed Up As The Joker, Pleads Guilty To Making Terrorist Threat

Over two years after patrons of the Blueberry Hill Bar in University City, Missouri were startled by a man dressed up in the costume and makeup as The Joker from the Batman series, the man has now pleaded guilty to making a terrorist threat and will serve 60 days in jail.

He was initially charged with the felony version of that charge when he was first arrested for the incident on March 2, 2020. A lengthy live stream from his Facebook account showed Jeremy Garnier getting ready to leave from his house and even putting the Joker costume on during the stream.

He then streamed himself driving to, and getting rejected from, the St. Louis Galleria, and eventually ended up at the Blueberry Hill.

During the streamed evening, Garnier apparently referenced “killing people,” and police later said he was heard making threats of violence at the bar as well. Police arrived at the bar after someone made an active shooter call, though Garnier was not armed.

Garnier accepted this plea deal do avoid much more time in jail.

He told The St. Louis Dispatch, “I was talking like the Joker. I was in character. Everybody knew that it was a joke and I had no intentions of following through with a threat.”

He could’ve gone to jail for a full year, but he will now serve just 60 days along with credit for time already served, which police say has already been several months. Garnier is also banned from going to Blueberry Hill, possessing a gun or ammunition, wearing costumes or makeup in public and from using social media for anything besides promoting his work as an artist.

Garnier is also prohibited from playing his original character, which is strangely another fictional clown named Clouty the Clown, a riff on the term clout which refers to a degree of influence or power in society.