Video Shows Missouri Couple Training Guns At Black Lives Matter Protesters Outside Their Home

A Missouri couple was captured on camera training their guns at a group of Black Lives Matter protesters who were marching their way to Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home through their posh St. Louis neighborhood Sunday night, to ask her to resign.

In a video depicting the incident, Patricia McCloskey was seen waving a handgun while her husband Mark McCloskey threatened the group of protesters with a semi-automatic rifle with an extended clip, yelling all the while.

Mark and Patricia, both personal injury lawyers, confronted a group of at least 300 protesters at around 7:00 p.m. EST after they breached a gate in their community, according to NBC 5.

The demand for Krewson’s resignation came after she revealed the name and the addresses of several residents who wrote in favor of defunding the police through a Facebook Live video.

The gun-toting McCloskeys had several protesters stop to stare at them while many others encouraged them to move forward. Video clips from the incident have been widely shared on Twitter since June 28.

The protesters reportedly set out from the intersection of Maryland Plaza and North Euclid Avenue and stopped at Krewson's Lake Avenue home before heading toward the Delmar Loop.

There were implications that the couple’s actions could be deemed as an assault given the protesters who were walking by their home didn’t specifically mean any harm to them.

According to the Missouri state law, a person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons “if he or she knowingly exhibits, in the presence of one or more persons, any weapon readily capable of lethal use in an angry or threatening manner."

According to the website for the couple’s law firm, they have been married for 30 years and have an adult daughter. Their “Midwestern palazzo” home was featured in St. Louis Magazine’s August 2018 issue after they redecorated their property. In the article, the majorly highlighted aspects of their property were its dome gilt ceiling and curved double staircase of marble leading to the second and third-floor landings.