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There's an Interesting Twist Concerning the St. Louis Couple Who Defended Their Home from Lefty Trespassers: They Were Supporters Of Black Lives Matter!
Townhall ^ | 06/30/2020 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 06/30/2020 7:26:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

You could almost hear the narrative being crafted in liberal newsrooms. The white couple who scared off lefty trespassers in St. Louis was about to be poster kids for every garbage ‘woke’ narrative under the sun. These clowns forced their way onto these people’s property. They were trespassing. That’s illegal—a key aspect of this story. The property belonged to Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who came out armed with firearms to deter these lefty agitators from the premises. Mark was sporting an AR-15 rifle, which surely triggered liberal America. This was a case of self-defense. To make things more interesting, the McCloskey’s are actually supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement. This lefty mob was marching on the house of Mayor Lyda Krewson, a Democrat after she released the names and addresses of locals who are for defunding the police department:


PHOTOS: A couple, both carrying guns, came outside of a home tonight in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis to confront protesters.

The group was marching to the home of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson to demand her resignation. (All photos taken by @BILLGREENBLATT) pic.twitter.com/T6xCggCgUy— Rob Edwards (@RobertDEdwards) June 29, 2020

JUST IN: St. Louis attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey release a statement, through an attorney, saying they support Black Lives Matter and they acted lawfully on their property. The couple, through their attorney, says "the agitators responsible for the trepidation were white" pic.twitter.com/4zebQqSH0y— Rob Edwards (@RobertDEdwards) June 29, 2020

We asked a legal expert if the couple who pulled out guns during a protest in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis could be charged with a crime. He's says it's unlikely.@PJKSDK explains why: https://t.co/Vek7dic3sl— Rob Edwards (@RobertDEdwards) June 30, 2020

So it turns out the gun-toting couple:

-Supports BLM
-Are Democrats
-Are representing a victim of police brutality.

The media is going to have a hard time comprehending this since they spent all of last night and this morning smearing them. https://t.co/FCfrlclXm1 pic.twitter.com/FfRxl3CHdP— Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 29, 2020

The memes from this incident have been nothing short of epic, but you cannot blame the McCloskeys and they’re not going to be the only ones who react this way when left-wing goons trespass onto people’s property. For weeks, we’ve had a left-wing mob loot, vandalize, and assault police in cities across the country in the wake of the officer-involved fatality of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. New York City was mayhem. Minneapolis all but burned to the ground. The scariest aspect is that the police seemed powerless to contain the riots. Even in Minneapolis, a National Guard presence did little to bring law and order to the situation. With these hooligans running wild, it’s absolutely within the right of law-abiding citizenry to protect their lives, their homes, and their property from these thugs. Charges against Mr. McCloskey are not expected. 

A couple in St. Louis defend their home with a firearm after protesters enter their neighborhood
pic.twitter.com/idmZO0nIpS— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 29, 2020

The same people destroying private property and threatening residents wonder why residents are coming out of their homes with AR-15's...?

Lmao— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) June 29, 2020

Hey! my people ... https://t.co/Wke6cZNQNx— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) June 29, 2020

Here is the video showing them knowingly entering the gated property. https://t.co/j5NAr2pokh https://t.co/lSa9OBv2We— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) June 29, 2020

More photos. #Heroes https://t.co/PxlrN4mLhT— Marina Medvin ???? (@MarinaMedvin) June 29, 2020

After weeks of looting, arson, vandalizing, and occupying city blocks, a mob trespasses and people defending their home are the real villains.— Razor (@hale_razor) June 29, 2020

“They were just peacefully walking past” pic.twitter.com/A3Z1QoYzrO— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 29, 2020

They trespassed and broke down a gate but those people protecting their property should have just known protestors associated with a movement involved with destroying public and private property were just on their way to some other private house.— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 29, 2020



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: blm; selfdefense; stlouis
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To: SeekAndFind

They may be stupid, but have a right to defend themselves. I hope they come to their senses and stop supporting a racist hate-America political party.


21 posted on 06/30/2020 7:39:48 AM PDT by I want the USA back (THERE ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO BE A DEBATE TRUMP VS BIDEN! It will be the best show ever!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I saw the guy on TV last night. He said he supported Black Lies Matter. In other words, he was OK with them as long as they were terrorizing and destroying other neighborhoods, but he didn’t want them in his neighborhood. I have a feeling that if someone in another neighborhood had done the same thing, he would have condemned them as “racists”.


22 posted on 06/30/2020 7:44:29 AM PDT by euram
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To: SeekAndFind
They should have spray painted Black Lives Matter all over their house...Or "we're with you"

Not that that would matter

23 posted on 06/30/2020 7:44:58 AM PDT by lewislynn ( It's not your color stupid, it's your attitude.)
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To: bray

I disagree. Extreme vile die hard lefties would do no such thing. They will either manufacture some excuse for voting for Biden or not vote at all.


24 posted on 06/30/2020 7:46:33 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: SeekAndFind

You lay down with the pigs, you’re going to get muddy. The interview the guy had with Live at 5, he was pandering to BLM, to beg for their forgiveness. What happens the next night with the broken gate and the liberal outrage over this and the now known address of this couple?


25 posted on 06/30/2020 7:47:59 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: SeekAndFind

Like a lot of people they fell for the PROPOSITION
that Black Lives Matter (they most certainly do)
without examining the actual beliefs of the ORGANIZATION
Black Lives Matter (which are in themselves racist because
they value black life above those of any other race).

It’s a brilliant bit of branding by some very evil people.


26 posted on 06/30/2020 7:48:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: butlerweave

Trigger and barrel control.

That lady didn’t actually shoot anyone while aiming at them with her finger on the trigger.

Shoot, or be prepared. This half-way pointing business seems like trouble to me.


27 posted on 06/30/2020 7:51:00 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (BIDEN for MEMORY CARE 2019!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Ignorant" indicates that they can learn from experience.

"Stupid Leftist" is forever.

Which are they?

28 posted on 06/30/2020 7:52:24 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Leaning Right
pointing her pistol at someone in the street, with her finger on the trigger...
You're right, she should have a trigger lock on that gun until after she's been attacked.

Another brainwashed gun owner?

You don't know anything about what was going on there and now you're siding with the potential attackers, instead of the attacked.

29 posted on 06/30/2020 7:56:52 AM PDT by lewislynn ( It's not your color stupid, it's your attitude.)
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To: lewislynn
You don't know anything about what was going on there and now you're siding with the potential attackers, instead of the attacked.

I agree. I think we're at the point where there are people we should identify as Good Guys and people we identify as Bad Guys. We need to support the Good Guys even if we think some of their behavior might not be 100% perfect.

I can tell you that if I'm on a jury for anything like this, I won't even think about what transpired. I'll just decide who I want to win the case. Because we're not really in a legal situation now. We're in a hot civil war, and I want my side to win. So I will support my side 100%.

30 posted on 06/30/2020 8:01:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Leaning Right

They’re broke the gate to their property trespassed on it and assembled illegally on a private street. When the homeowners inform them they were trespassing on private property the marxistS became enraged and threatened them with harm.


31 posted on 06/30/2020 8:07:41 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: SeekAndFind

“They Were Supporters Of Black Lives Matter!”

I think that’s turned out to not be true.


32 posted on 06/30/2020 8:09:09 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

RE: I think that’s turned out to not be true.

So, you’re saying this Townhall report is FALSE?

Can you point us to the correct news?


33 posted on 06/30/2020 8:09:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

-Supports BLM
-Are Democrats
-Are representing a victim of police brutality.

Attorneys must always keep up a good front it’s good for business,if they were the above they wouldn’t have guns but they know the ones they defend.


34 posted on 06/30/2020 8:17:45 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Say what you will about this couple but watch the video and notice the protesters staying firmly on the sidewalk and not in their yard. By the way the protesters screamed that they were going to kill their dog and burn down their house.


35 posted on 06/30/2020 8:21:55 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: mrmeyer

< They’re broke the gate to their property trespassed on it <

Interesting. But which gate? Was it a gate to the private community, or a gate to their own house?

Because if it was their own gate, I become way more sympathetic to them, even with the woman’s horrible trigger discipline (she needs to take an NRA course).

But if it was the community’s gate that went down...I’ve got to think about that. I don’t know if that’s worth pointing a gun at someone - but holding a gun at the ready, you betcha.


36 posted on 06/30/2020 8:23:22 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“So it turns out the gun-toting couple:

-Supports BLM
-Are Democrats
-Are representing a victim of police brutality.”

According to Open Secrets (https://www.opensecrets.org/), husband, wife, and law firm have spread their money fairly equally between Rats and Republicans


37 posted on 06/30/2020 8:38:36 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Because the protesters had beaten down the gate to a private community in which the streets and sidewalks are owned and maintained by the HOA rather than the city, the protesters were tresspassing while on the sidewalk.

Not that I’d want to use that flimsy but accurate defense.

I’d stay behind my door with plenty of defense.


38 posted on 06/30/2020 8:42:39 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (BIDEN for MEMORY CARE 2019!)
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To: Uncle Miltie
My point was that the protesters were careful to stay on the sidewalk and off those folks yard with guns pointed at them. What do you think that crowd would have done if the Walkers were unarmed on their patio and telling the crowd it was private property and to leave? Likely they would have stormed right across the yard. Guns matter. 😆
39 posted on 06/30/2020 8:50:37 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SeekAndFind

They said he is a lawyer. Most Lawyers especially personal injury lawyers are left leaning. He may change his his tune now but who knows.


40 posted on 06/30/2020 8:55:39 AM PDT by BobinIL
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