stltoday | ST.
LOUIS — As protesters made their way to Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home on
Sunday night, demanding her resignation, they marched and shouted along
private Portland Place. They were met by a couple pointing guns and
telling protesters to get away.
Protesters
chanted to a drumbeat of “Let’s go!” Hundreds of them filed by. The
couple, Mark T. and Patricia N. McCloskey, stood outside with weapons.
They are personal-injury lawyers who work together in The McCloskey Law
Center and own a million dollar home.'
“Private
property!” Mark McCloskey shouted repeatedly at the crowd, as he held a
rifle. “Get out! Private property, get out!” Patricia McCloskey pointed
a small handgun.
Someone
in the crowd replied, “Calm down.” A woman protester yelled, “Then call
the (expletive) cops, you idiot!” and “It’s a public street
(expletive).”
The
Post-Dispatch photographed the exchange. A video on Twitter had been
viewed more than 10 million times by Monday morning. President Trump
retweeted an ABC News account of the confrontation.
The couple’s renovation of their storied Renaissance palazzo mansion on Portland Place was featured in St. Louis Magazine.
City records show the property is appraised at $1.15 million. The
couple could not be reached Monday morning to talk about the incident.
The windows at the couple's law firm were boarded up; no one responded
to a knock on the door of their home.
