Police execute search warrant at home of gun-toting couple
Source: AP
ST. LOUIS (AP) Authorities executed a search warrant at the St. Louis mansion of a white couple whose armed defense of their home during a recent racial injustice protest drew widespread attention, their attorney confirmed Saturday.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are personal injury lawyers, were caught on video brandishing guns as demonstrators walked past their Renaissance palazzo-style home on June 28 while headed to protest outside of the mayors home nearby. The video showed Mark McCloskey, 61, wielding a long-barreled gun and Patricia McCloskey, 63 standing next to him waving a handgun.
Joel Schwartz, the couples lawyer, said a search warrant was served Friday evening and that the gun Mark McCloskey was holding in the video was seized. Schwartz told The Associated Press that arrangements have been made to turn over to authorities on Saturday the gun that Patricia McCloskey had been holding, adding that her gun was inoperable at the time of the protest and still is.
The couple has not been charged, and Schwartz said charges against them would be absolutely, positively unmerited.
FILE - In this June 28, 2020 file photo, armed homeowners Mark and Patricia McCloskey, standing in front their house along Portland Place confront protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's house in the Central West End of St. Louis. Authorities executed a search warrant Friday evening, July 10, 2020, at the St. Louis mansion owned by the McCloskey's, a white couple whose armed defense of their home during a racial injustice protest last month made national headlines. said. Joel Schwartz, who is now representing the couple, confirmed on Saturday that a search warrant was served, and that the gun Mark McCloskey was seen holding during last month's protest was seized. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)I have snuggled with the ole lady on numerous occasions, but not while brandishing deadly weapons. Kind of ruins the pretense they feared for their lives. More like they were living out a bedroom fantasy....
RiF
(48 posts)Voltaire2
(12,625 posts)Im fairly certain that the gun was non-functional is not a valid defense.
groundloop
(11,488 posts)Journeyman
(15,001 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Yeehah
(4,524 posts)Meanwhile, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Saturday that public records and interviews show the McCloskeys are almost always in conflict with others, typically over control of private property.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)And I strongly think that operability has no bearing on assault charges from brandishing weapons.
paleotn
(17,778 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)Even if the gun were a toy, brandishing should still be criminal.
People have been killed for waving toy guns around.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)or liberated their guns or whatever. Freedom!
PSPS
(13,512 posts)PSPS
(13,512 posts)They filed a lawsuit in 1988 to obtain their house, a castle built for Adolphus Buschs daughter and her husband in the early 20th century. At the McCloskeys property in Franklin County, they have sued neighbors for making changes to a gravel road and twice evicted tenants from a modular home on their property.
Mark McCloskey sued a former employer for wrongful termination and his sister, father and his fathers caretaker for defamation.
The McCloskeys and the trustees of Portland Place, the tony private street in a St. Louis historic district where they live, have been involved in a three-year legal dispute over a small piece of land in the neighborhood. The McCloskeys claim they own it, but the trustees say it belongs to the neighborhood. Mark McCloskey said in an affidavit that he has defended the patch previously by pointing a gun at a neighbor who tried to cut through it.
TomSlick
(11,033 posts)I was becoming concerned.
Coventina
(26,853 posts)Lemme guess......
(white privilege)
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not_the_one
(2,227 posts)In other words, white trash with money... true trumphumpers.