The St. Louis Couple Who Threatened Peaceful Protesters with Guns Live in a "Midwestern Palazzo"

Protests against police brutality continued across the country this weekend, including a march of around 500 people demanding the mayor’s resignation in St. Louis. Earlier in the week, Mayor Lyda Krewson read the names and addresses of individuals calling to defund the police, basically doxxing people who sent letters to the mayor’s office. In response, protesters marched through an upscale neighborhood on the way to Krewson’s house on Sunday, chanting, "Resign, Lyda, take the cops with you."

The mere presence of peaceful protesters in their neighborhood was more than some residents could handle, though. At one point, a man and a woman came out of their house and started threatening passersby, pointing a rifle and a handgun at them with fingers on the trigger. The incident was captured on video and in multiple photographs.

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The couple has since been identified as Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who run a personal-injury law firm and live in what St. Louis Magazine described as a "Midwestern palazzo" in a 2018 profile:

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.

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