Neighbors From Hell? The Insane Drama Behind the Gun-Toting St. Louis Lawyer Couple

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Before they were photographed brandishing guns during a Black Lives Matter protest, Mark and Patricia McCloskey had made a name for themselves in their St. Louis neighborhood, suing and writing angry letters to community groups, and even accusing a neighborhood association of trespassing for taking a picture of their house.

The McCloskeys, a pair of lawyers, won internet fame this week after they were filmed pointing guns at racial justice protesters outside their mansion in a gated community. The McCloskeys said the protesters were trespassing on their private street, and that they feared for their lives. But the couple has, for decades, been wrapped up in conflict in the area, sometimes in cases that foreshadowed their now-infamous confrontation with Black Lives Matter activists.

Footage of the McCloskeys went viral on Sunday after activists walked on their St. Louis street en route to a protest outside the mayor’s home nearby. Standing outside their palatial home, the couple—Mark wearing a pink polo and carrying a rifle and Patricia with her finger on the trigger of a pistol—looked like a portrait of weaponized white wealth.

In interviews after the confrontation, the McCloskeys said they went outside with guns because they felt terrorized and worried that the marchers were going to murder them. The couple pointed to damage to a nearby gate as proof that the protest was intent on destroying property. That story has since come under some dispute, after the release of a video that showed the gate intact when the McCloskeys first drew guns on the protesters. The gate was photographed damaged later on Sunday.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/neighbors-hell-insane-drama-behind-212830221.html

[Nevilledog]

1. Yup....long time assholes.

[Midnight Writer]

2. These filthy rich shysters have a GoFundMe page. This is a money making scheme.

[Squinch]

4. Another post here said Tucker Carlson started it.

[tblue37]

14. He didnt. He just publicized it. nt

[Gore1FL]

22. It's hilarious that people would donate

If a Right Wing Nut empties their bank account to give a rich person money, that'll sure show the Black Lives Matter protesters...

LOL, the right is so stupid.

[Nevilledog]

24. Fools and their money are soon parted.

[Lucinda]

3. Was she the one with her finger on the trigger in the photo?

It's getting hard to keep track of which idiot is which...

[tblue37]

15. Yep, and the prison stripe top. nt

[sheshe2]

18. With noticeable mustard stains on the front.

Money can't buy you class or a brain.

[cwydro]

5. Interesting. The pistol packing Michigan couple have the same sort of history.

You just can't make this shit up.

[Demovictory9]

6. "But the McCloskeys filed their first lawsuit against the community before they even lived there."

[Demovictory9]

7. Patricia spearheaded an effort to enforce an obscure state law banning unmarried couples from living

Patricia spearheaded an effort to enforce an obscure state law banning unmarried couples from living together

[thucythucy]

8. Maybe i'm weird this way

but if I "feared for my life" at the hands of any sort of crowd, I'd stay inside my house.

But I suppose that might just be me.

[Lulu KC]

10. Exactly!

Hide in a closet or behind a door with the gun. That's what the smart people do on television.

[Marcuse]

11. They felt threatened so they made themselves targets for any armed protesters. Trumper logic.

[uponit7771]

13. +1, yep ... if one is white in America and afraid of something one could place themselves closer to

... the thing they're afraid of to have an excuse to shoot it.

Those people are horrid

[3catwoman3]

16. I thought the very same thing - just stay inside. Surely calls to the cops...

...from a neighborhood like that get quick responses.

Maybe they even have a safe room in the basement. I think they wanted to do exactly what they did - go out and wave their guns around.

[sheshe2]

20. Frankly...

She looked so drunk I doubt she could find their safe room.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. That's just what I thought. They're the kind of people who gotta have attention.

“Oooo! Oooo! Look! Scary brown people, we don’t like them! Time to wave our guns around to show’em who’s boss!”

[IronLionZion]

30. Liberals are such snowflakes

Conservatives run out barefoot with guns to fight off a bunch of unarmed people walking down the street.

This happens with every mass shooting and call for sensible gun laws. Conservatives always imagine themselves as wild west heroes bravely shooting it out with bad guys coming to murder them. "Feared for my life" is a common excuse for murdering unarmed people.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Well,the Lawyers Board

for Missouri needs to revoke their Licenses.

[LTG]

17. They could possibly take hers probably not his

From the video I’ve seen, she appears to have committed the crime of handling a firearm in a threatening manner. This is the Class D felony of Brandishing a Deadly Weapon. She pointed the weapon at the protesters and had her finger on the trigger, either could be considered threatening. His stance and manner of handling, not pointing it in anyone’s direction or shouldering the weapon, while on his own property probably isn’t a violation. A Class D felony is subject to a sentence of up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $5,000.

Her violation of a felony involving a firearm probably would justify a revocation of license. This could possibly be affected by final charge in a plea deal or if not convicted by a jury, not a given in this climate and with recent occurrences of violence, arson and looting. Jury might find a reasonable fear existent.

Depending upon any unknown factors, he may not have committed any violation of law sufficient to allow revocation.

All that said, they are not people that I want living in my neighborhood.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. They're personal-injury lawyers, aka Ambulance Chasers. . .

. . .'nuff said.





#newrostrong

[niyad]

19. I would almost bet that people this hateful, this nasty, have a safe room in that palace

of theirs. So why were they not in it? I seem to remember various safety instructions over the years that included such advice as, "if you hear noises in your house, do NOT go to investigate. Call the police"


But then, I am not a gun-humping racist jerk, either.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

29. Gun humpers gotta hump! They're always on high alert, looking for any excuse

to wave the guns around.


The Waving The Guns Around is their “civilized” substitute for whipping out their dicks and pissing around the perimeters of their territory.

[niyad]

31. You nearly owed me a keyboard!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

32. 🤣

[Warpy]

23. They need to have their guns taken away from them.

It's only a matter of time before they shoot somebody and there's an excellent chance it will be each other.

Disarmed, they'd have to be a lot nicer to their neighbors.

[Nevilledog]

27. Debarked would be even better.

[Nitram]

25. Just your average gated community Ken and Karen upholding their right to be assholes.

[aikoaiko]

26. I'm not surprised.

The pointing of firearms (finger on the trigger in her case) at people who, at most, are trespassing has to be criminal.

People can patrol their property with firearms pointed down or holstered, but in most cases there has to be a felon happening to justify pointing a gun at someone.

[TNNurse]

28. They could have just stayed inside and locked the doors.

I bet there is serious security on their home.

Why be outside except to play with your guns????

[MagickMuffin]

33. The couple pointed to damage to a nearby gate as proof

that the protest was intent on destroying property. That story has since come under some dispute, after the release of a video that showed the gate intact when the McCloskeys first drew guns on the protesters. The gate was photographed damaged later on Sunday.

Hmmm veery interesting tidbit: I guess those protesters came back in the dead of night, huh?

Although I'm almost certain the community would have locked everyone safe and sound in their pampered lives.

[Cha]

34. I like the way the writer puts that.. ".. racial justice protesters.."

As for the McCloskeys.. ".. weaponized white wealth.." Privilege!