Black Lives Matter protesters return to Missouri couple’s mansion

Black Lives Matter protesters have returned to the mansion of a Missouri couple who last week drew guns on activists who broke into their gated community during a demonstration.

Photos of Mark and Patricia McCloskey standing outside their palatial St. Louis property armed with an AR-15 and a handgun were beamed around the world last Sunday, with the scene coming to symbolize the polarization currently gripping America.

Mark McCloskey, who is a prominent personal injury attorney, has defended drawing his weapon, saying he thought 'death was coming through his gate'.

But on Friday, he and his wife were far more passive as hundreds of demonstrators returned to their upscale neighborhood to stage a protest outside their lavish home.

The pair were seen tentatively peering out at the protest from the confines of their balcony, in the presence of their attorney.

Private security was seen securing barriers outside the home prior to the protest.

Demonstrators chanted and brandished placards outside the residence for around 15 minutes before moving on.

In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Tuesday, Mark McCloskey recalled the situation that led to his armed standoff with demonstrators last Sunday.

'My wife and I were preparing to have dinner, maybe 70 feet from the gate,' he told Carlson.

'By the time we looked up and we saw the marchers coming down Kings Highway and getting loud, we looked over the gate and there's no police there. Our private security wasn't there. Nobody's there.

'I look over to my wife and then the gate bursts open and then all these People start coming in. And then a flood of people start coming in,' he said.

'They are angry, they're screaming, they've got spittle coming out of their mouth they're coming toward the house.'

McCloskey continued that after watching a 7/11 be burned down with no intervention in a protest in the city on June 22, he felt that he and his wife had to act and they went into the home to grab a handgun and an AR-15.

'I turned to my wife and I said, "Oh my God, we're absolutely alone. There is nobody here to protect us",' he told Fox.

'When I saw that mob coming through the gate with their rage and their anger, I thought that we would be overrun in a second,' he said.

'By the time I was out there with my rifle, the people were 20 or 30 feet from my fro... (Read more)

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