Mark McCloskey and Patricia McCloskey pointing guns at protesters walking by their home in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 28, went viral on Twitter.
A couple has come out of their house and is pointing guns at protesters in their neighborhood #StLouis #lydakrewson pic.twitter.com/ZJ8a553PAU
— Daniel Shular (@xshularx) June 29, 2020
Mark McCloskey and Patricia McCloskey St. Louis House
The married couple, who work together as personal injury trial lawyers, came out of their house armed on Sunday to prevent protesters from walking onto their property in the Forest Park area.
In the videos shared online, however, it doesn’t appear that anyone walking in Sunday’s protest calling for the resignation of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson was trespassing on their palatial property.
While Mark holds a large assault weapon and Patty holds a handgun in the video, they end up pointing their weapons at each other while staring down protesters.
The surreal scene went down Sunday evening in the Central West End neighborhood, as a crowd was marching to the home of Mayor Lyda Krewson to demand her resignation for releasing names and addresses of citizens who want to defund the police.
The couple, attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey, apparently felt threatened by the protesters and stepped outside brandishing firearms — Mark with a semi-automatic weapon and Patricia with a handgun. Seems it was a split-second decision because they didn’t even put on shoes.
Fortunately the act of intimidation from the barefoot Bonnie and Clyde only led to verbal spats with some of the reported 300 protestors.
One note of irony … Mark and Patricia are personal injury lawyers who have exclusively represented people “seriously injured or killed as the result of the negligence of others” for the past 3 decades.
