A white couple, Mark and Patricia McCloskey pointed their guns at peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters, marching through their gated community in St Louis, Missouri on Sunday.
The husband had an AR-15 and the wife held a small handgun. They were standing outside their mansion in the Central West End neighborhood, shouting at protesters.
According to the police report obtained by BuzzFeed News, the couple contacted the police “when they heard a loud commotion coming from the street” and “observed a large group of subjects forcefully break an iron gate marked with ‘No Trespassing’ and ‘Private Street’ signs.”
Police said the couple claimed protesters were “yelling obscenities and threats of harm to both victims” and that they brought out their guns when they “observed multiple subjects who were armed.”
It was later revealed that Mark and Patricia are personal injury attorneys who own and operate the law firm, The McCloskey Law Center. Patricia is a member of the Missouri Bar Association ethics-review panel and Mark is representing a black man who was assaulted by a St Louis cop in April 2019. According to Insider, the cop involved in that case was indicted on a federal charge of deprivation of rights under color of law in March.
The protesters were marching through the gated community to Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home to demand her resignation after she read the names and addresses of activists who wrote to her office suggesting that she defund the police department, during a Facebook live briefing on Friday.
She later apoligized for identifying the individuals.
Distraction
The video of the couple pointing their guns at peaceful BLM protesters was retweeted by Donald Trump. No doubt to deflect attention away from news reports that he was briefed about Russia paying Afghan militants bounties to kill US troops and did nothing.
This is the second time Trump has attempted to deflect attention from the New York Times story. On Sunday he retweeted a video of one of his supporters in The Villages, yelling “white power” at a group of anti-Trump protesters. He later deleted the tweet and the White House claims he never heard his supporter clearing yelling the white supremacist term.
