Friday, March 29, 2024

St. Louis Couple That Pointed Guns at #BLM Protesters Feared They Would Be ‘Murdered’ [VIDEO]

*A St. Louis couple went viral over the weekend after footage showed them pointing guns at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their home. 

Mark and Patricia McCloskey told local CBS affiliate KMOV in an interview that they were “in fear for our lives” after seeing demonstrators walking by their home in the gated community of Portland Place. 

The protesters were on their way to the home of Mayor Lyda Krewson (D), calling on her to resign after she revealed the personal information of activists on a livestream.

“It was like the storming of the Bastille, the gate came down and a large crowd of angry, aggressive people poured through. I was terrified that we’d be murdered within seconds. Our house would be burned down, our pets would be killed,” Mark McCloskey told the station.

According to the report, it has not been confirmed whether the gate was damaged by the protesters.

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“A mob of at least 100 smashed through the historic wrought iron gates of Portland Place, destroying them, rushed towards my home where my family was having dinner outside and put us in fear for our lives,” he told the station. Mark also claims to have received a death threat from one protester.

An attorney representing the couple, Albert Watkins, said the McCloskeys actions were not “race related,” adding, “In fact, the agitators responsible for the trepidation were white.”

“The Black Lives Matters movement is here to stay, it is the right message, and it is about time,” Watkins continued in the statement to KMOV. “The McCloskeys want to make sure no one thinks less of BLM, its message and the means it is employing to get its message out because of the actions of a few white individuals who tarnished a peaceful protest.”

He also noted that the McCloskeys “are lawyers whose professional careers have punctuated by their long standing commitment to protecting the civil rights of clients victimized at the hands of law enforcement. This commitment of time and resources to this cause continues today in the Isaiah Forman case.”

During an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, Mark McCloskey reiterated that he felt they would be “overrun in a second” by the “mob” and decided to get his AR-15.

“I have a low wall that separates the house from my front yard,” he said. “And so I was literally afraid that within seconds they would surmount the wall and come into the house, kill us, burn the house down and everything that I had worked for and struggled for for the last 32 years.”

Carlson then asked what he thought about those criticizing him for being a racist.

“I don’t understand. Here’s the interesting thing, I spent my career defending people that are defenseless, for people having a hard time making their miracle happen, for people who don’t have a voice,” he declared. “My Black clients love us! And the night that this happened, I had some of our Black clients calling us up at 2:30 a.m. telling us how wrong this was the way the press was writing this up.”

“I help people that are down or that need a hand and people that need a voice,” McCloskey continued. “To call us racist is ridiculous and it had nothing to do with race. I wasn’t worried what the race was for the mob that came through my gate, I was worried that I was going to be killed. I didn’t care what race they were.”

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