US couple draw guns at hundreds of protestors in St Louis

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

7 MIN AGO • SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
A couple pointed guns at protestors in St Louis as a group marched toward the mayor's home to demand her resignation.



Armed couple standing in front their house in St Louis confront protesters marching to Mayor Lyda Krewson's house Source: Associated Press


A social media video showed the armed couple standing outside of their large home yesterday in the upscale Central West End neighbourhood of the Missouri city.

In the video, the unidentified couple shouted at protestors, while people in the march moved the crowd forward, urging participants to ignore them.

The group of at least 500 people were heading toward Mayor Lyda Krewson's home, chanting, “Resign Lyda, take the cops with you,” news outlets reported.

Link to tweet

Read more: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/us-couple-draw-guns-hundreds-protestors-in-st-louis

[Journeyman]

1. The way she's waving that gun around, scared as she looks, he'll be lucky to escape . . .

without a central cooling system installed between his ears.

[SunSeeker]

2. What a pathetic pair of scared ammosexuals.

[Grokenstein]

3. See, if ANTIFA were so damn "bloodthirsty"

...Pink Shirt Asshole would have been gut-shot while jabbing his trigger finger at the protesters.

...Wait, does Mrs. Afraid actually have her tiny pistol pointed at Mr. Afraid's head with her finger on the trigger? Wowsers.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

28. Yes. Yes she does.

I don't own any guns, nor do I want to, but even I know what 'trigger discipline' is. I'm surprised she didn't accidentally shoot anyone.

[Throck]

4. Their wardrobe alone should be enough to put them in jail.

[SunSeeker]

5. LOL, yup. More proof that money can't buy you class.

[soothsayer]

10. Wait until you see the interior

[apnu]

12. The spare ammo clip in his pocket is a nice touch (nt)

[Lulu KC]

14. ha ha ha

So inconsistent with the gravity of the moment! If it weren't so horrid, it would be hilarious. Well, kind of a conglomeration of both.

[SharonClark]

17. Ha, ha, ha, NOT

would you prefer them in camo?

[LiberalFighter]

6. Some house they have.

[soothsayer]

9. Check out the inside

And their real names and such on this thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213670533

[dustyscamp]

7. Check out this wannabe Tony Montana and his knockoff bond girl

[obamanut2012]

26. Yes! I thought of Tony Montana LARPing, too

[soothsayer]

8. Ken and Karen

Link to tweet

?s=21

[Traildogbob]

16. Wonder if he served in military

The kind of battlefield weapon owner that will shit those kakis if a gun is pointed HIS direction. Fuck MurKKKa.

[obamanut2012]

27. By the way he is holidng that AR? I'd say NO!

After the first second, he'll be shooting the phone wires.

[Traildogbob]

29. 😂

[ancianita]

11. Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. She is a member of the Missouri Bar Association ethical review panel

Mark & Patricia McCloskey: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2020/06/28/gun-swinging-lawyers-confront-protesters-in-central-west-end

[Lulu KC]

15. WHAT???

I just gasped. Thanks for link. OY VEY!!!

[madeup64]

22. Wow!

Hopefully she is not a member for long.

Worst part of this story is even if they lose their job(s) once their employer sees their obvious racism and wardrobe choices is that he probably gets hired by Xe (formerly Blackwater) since their only hiring requirement is "Must have ability to waive around military style weapon recklessly at unarmed citizens that are of little to no immediate threat."

[Gore1FL]

25. They own their own law firm

They won't be fired but I doubt their business will boom.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. A decades-long renovation returns a Midwestern palazzo to its original glory

DESIGN
A decades-long renovation returns a Midwestern palazzo to its original glory
See inside the palace near Forest Park.

BY STEFENE RUSSELL AUGUST 16, 2018 4:00 AM


PHOTO BY ALISE O'BRIEN

Editor's note: This story has been updated to remove the address of the home.

When attorneys Mark and Patty McCloskey bought their home in February of 1988, it was the color of cigarette ashes. Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. The two Carrara marble urns out front, copies of a pair at the Vatican, had turned black, obscuring Neptune and his attending dolphins. The imported Caen limestone in the entry hall had been painted battleship gray, and the intricate wood carvings in the dining room (which, as Mark points out, are so detailed, you can see the birds’ individual claws), were smothered in layers of white and robin’s-egg blue. What had once been St. Louis’ most dazzling mansion now felt more like a haunted house. It didn’t help that the first time Mark and Patty turned the key in the door, the temperature had fallen to 4 below zero and the house didn’t have a functioning furnace. The prior owner had heated the house with 48 kerosene space heaters that had since been removed.

The McCloskeys joke that they were too young and naïve to know what they’d signed up for. But 30 years later, the house is as magnificent as it was when Edward and Anna Busch Faust held court here, meeting guests at the top of the grand staircase for afternoon tea or smoking cigars around the billiard table in the sub-basement.

{snip}


PHOTO BY ALISE O'BRIEN


PHOTO BY ALISE O'BRIEN

{snip}

[mr_lebowski]

31. Not that this makes their actions 'okay', but it sorta gives some perspective on why

they were so keen to defend their property.

It's a magnificent edifice, quite honestly.

[Yeehah]

39. They weren't defending anything

They accosted and threatened peaceful people for no reason other than to show off their fucking guns.

[mr_lebowski]

42. If I had a multi-million $$$ historic home I spent 30 years restoring ...

And a large gaggle of protesters were walking down my street ... and I happened to have an AR-15 (which I never would), given the recent vandalism and looting associated with some protests of late ... I could see entertaining the thought of walking out front with my AR strapped across my back.

I would never draw it, and would strongly guess I wouldn't need to. The brandishing (as you say, for no real reason) is where they got way out of line, IMHO. Had they just been standing there, armed, but not brandishing, nobody would talking about this.

Not sure I would do that, but it would cross my mind, not gonna lie.

Then again, it's all very theoretical, since I've never owned a gun in my life.

[unc70]

43. Photos appear to be from their driveway

Otherwise looks difficult to get that angle of the front.

[csziggy]

44. No, it is from a sidewalk

The street that the house is on seems to be a restricted one - Google Maps does not have a Street View of the neighborhood. But the view is from a curved sidewalk.

Look up Portland Place, St. Louis, MO on Google Maps - then pull up the aerial view. The house seems to be the one at the east end of the street on the north side, which is a very flattened oval. That makes the sidewalk curve look like its along a curved driveway.

You can see the house, behind a wall, from Kingshighway Blvd and see the entrance though which the protestors entered the neighborhood. That entrance does not seem to be gated or have signage restricting entrance. One of the early stories said they were looking for the mayor's house so she may live in that upscale area.

[SharonClark]

19. What's the backstory on Mayor Lyda Krewson?

She brought this on herself. Has she always been so stupid?

[maxsolomon]

41. There were protests at the Seattle Mayor's house last night, too.

I could hear it from my house.

It was a nationwide thing.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. Doesn't she remind you of someone?

Source: https://www.rocaille.it/pink-flamingos-an-exercise-in-bad-taste/

[Lulu KC]

21. Barefoot?

I can't turn away from this story.
It has so many elements.

[Gore1FL]

23. They are personal injury attys from the McClosky Law center in St. Louis.

[Aristus]

24. Once more for those in the back: THIS IS WHITE PRIVILEGE!

Tamil Rice was shot to death for playing with a toy gun. These cretins get to wave around deadly weaponry in a manner no one familiar with firearm handling would possibly allow under any circumstances. And get away without a scratch.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

30. ]the inside of that armed couple's mansion is just villainously hideous

Last edited Mon Jun 29, 2020, 04:36 PM - Edit history (1)

From Ragnar_Lothbrok, at Joe.My.God.:

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/06/trump-retweets-clip-of-couple-pointing-guns-at-blm/#comment-4972785784

the inside of that armed couple’s mansion is just villainously hideous

Link to tweet

[mr_lebowski]

32. I totally disagree with that assessment ...

It's a historic mansion, restored to look like it used to, after having fallen into serious disrepair. They've spent 30 years restoring it.

I think it's pretty awesome, honestly.

That's irrespective of their actions, which I don't condone. Standing out front with the AR strapped across his back would be one thing. Somewhat understandable given the property's value to them.

Brandishing the weapons is quite another thing.

[OriginalGeek]

33. I love everything about the house except

the people living in it.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

35. I guess it's a Gilded Age thing.

Surely it's listed with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

[OriginalGeek]

36. If I won the lottery

I would probably have some rooms similar to some of those. Unless I could talk my kids and grandkids into coming and living with us, my lottery dream home would not be anywhere near that size though.

But I do love me some library and wood paneling and painted ceilings lol.


conversely, I have often also dreamed of having a home shaped like the Starship Enterprise with the bridge being my home theater room.

Lemme win the lottery first and then we'll see if past or future wins the design budget.

[mr_lebowski]

37. Depending on the lottery, good chance you could do both ...

You can have the everyday house, and the vacation house in say, Bora Bora? That's where mine would be, or around there somewhere. Maybe Tahiti

[OriginalGeek]

46. lol yeah I need to get in on a Powerball

I don't think the plain 'ol Florida Lotto will cover all the places I need to have homes - STARTING with something in Dallas so I can get season tickets for the Cowboys.

Assuming we ever get to go to public events again. :/


I hear Costa Rico is nice - and I loved the tiny little slice of it I got to see when we stopped there on a cruise once. But there is definitely a beach somewhere in my Lottery winning plans.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

34. I understand. No problem. NT

[Progressive Jones]

38. I can tell you right now that those two aren't very well trained. That's dangerous.

Especially the woman with the handgun. She looked like she was shaking.

[Gore1FL]

40. Their web page and Facebook presence is gone now.

Some poor lawyer in Elkhart Indiana with the same surname is apparently getting some heat on facebook for these two.

[1plus1equals1]

45. White Privilege

And the fact that these cowards were not immediately jailed is just another example of white privilege.

[usajumpedtheshark]

47. I would have laughed so hard

if they had shot each other during their display of stupidity.