266,610, This story has been shared 165,827 times. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. All rights reserved. A mansion on Portland Place in St. Louis. “To this, day, I honestly can’t tell you if anyone who lives there is Black.”. We've received your submission. In an incident that made national news in the wake of the Ferguson protests, an off-duty cop who had been hired by residents of another private place, Flora Place, killed Black teenager VonDerrit Myers, Jr. in 2014. NPR reports 102 people were arrested in St. Paul and another 120 in Baton Rouge, including prominent Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson, who was arrested while walking along […]. Privacy Notice “‘We’re gonna burn your house, this is gonna be my bedroom, my living room and bathroom after you’re dead,’” Mark cited as an example. Legal Statement. They suddenly decided to veer onto the McCloskeys’ street, prompting the confrontation that was caught on cellphone video. Police are using their squad cars as deadly weapons in their response on Saturday to protesters decrying police violence against people of color, most recently the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. When about 300 protesters returned Friday — holdings signs reading “Black Lives Matter. “They broke down our gate. But several videos on social media showed protesters walking through an undamaged gate — and one protestor who was present confirmed to Streetsblog that the gate was not in that condition they entered the street — suggesting that the gates were damaged sometime later.
JavaScript is required for full functionality on this website, but scripting is currently disabled. Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. here’s what happens when you march on Portland Place in St. Louis, MO, they’re scared of their own community pic.twitter.com/Ng8qW1Pa6C.
Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. A spokeswoman for Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner declined comment. Quiz: Can you name these TV Shows by their catchphrases? - Google Street View If you were in St. Louis and wanted — hypothetically — to eat the rich, 1 Portland Place would be a good place to start. “I believe in my heart of hearts that the only thing that kept those mobsters, that crowd, away from us is that we were standing there with guns,” Mark McCloskey, 63, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday. When attorneys Mark and Patty McCloskey bought their home in February of 1988, it was the color of cigarette ashes. It wasn’t clear what led to that additional count, he said. During the interview, the couple sat in a room with a leopard skin rug and a red fox head mounted on the wall, but Mark insisted he is not a hunter. There were no weapons in evidence that I saw other than theirs. Your Ad Choices -
But in practice, of course, even the most violent means of spatial exclusion are often not always enforced — and who is spared falls along racial lines. This story has been shared 165,827 times. “The Hamburglar was one of the funniest,” interjected his wife, who sparked the meme after wearing a black and white striped shirt that was reminiscent of an outfit worn by the character in a McDonald’s commercial. The McCloskeys have spent years restoring their mansion, which was built more than 100 years ago by the son of Adolphus Busch, of Anheuser-Busch fame, the couple told St. Louis Magazine in a 2018 interview. They’re coming towards our house.
There was one time I did find that gate locked. https://t.co/Gignc5hO3t, — Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) June 29, 2020. The now-smashed gate directly adjacent to the McCloskey’s driveway was frequently left unlocked. “They’re angry, they’re screaming,” Mark McCloskey told Tucker Carlson on Fox News. The case has caught the attention of President Donald Trump, and Republican Missouri Gov. The gates are marked with "No Trespassing" and "Private Street" signs, he told News 4. It borders the 1,300-acre Forest Park owned by the city of St. Louis. The 1909 Edward A. Faust house, seen behind the gates of Portland Place in St. Louis’s Central West End neighborhood. The Italian Renaissance-inspired palazzo was once St. Louis' "most dazzling" mansion complete with a teak-and-ebony dance floor, a rare Aeolian house organ with 38-foot-long pipes and stained glass windows, according to the magazine. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Some may not register as easily, at least to those who have never had to consider the violent history of something as “neutral” as the curvilinear design of a street, a low iron gate, a small, calligraphic “No Trespassing” sign — or how these design features can so easily become a pretext for state-sanctioned violence against a Black body. The couple said that while they have heard from supporters, they also have been inundated with threats. Full disclosure: I’m a white St. Louisan, and I’ve personally walked down Portland Place countless times without incident.
“When Portland Place was built in 1888, people thought they were escaping the poor and the ‘wretched’ — at the time, that was code for immigrants and former slaves — and locking them out.
Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. McCloskey and his wife, Patricia, told the outlet that they had prepared for violent activists — leaving fire extinguishers in every first-floor room and a rifle in the living room — after neighborhood homeowner trustees warned them that the protest group was expected to show up. And like mayors, governors, and powerful people across the country, she participates in the protection and perpetuation of violent white supremacy in countless ways. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who confronted marchers with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun last week, kept their guns out of sight Friday when the crowd returned, looking down on the protest along with their lawyer and private security standing by. “We weren’t concerned about it until it got up to the point where the Kingshighway gate was and realized there was no security, no police, nothing to keep them from coming in,” Mark told the paper. A view of Niemann Mansion in St. Louis. AP The crowd remained … Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Moreover, there’s no evidence that unarmed protesters posed any threat to McCloskeys’ well-being — which would make their show of force an act of escalation, rather than self-defense. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. Unlike the outer-ring suburban neighborhoods that many Americans might associate with the word “subdivision,” Portland Place is actually located in the heart of one of St. Louisan’s most urbanized areas, just blocks from the region’s largest employer (Barnes Jewish Hospital), one of the region’s densest commercial corridors (Euclid Avenue), and the region’s largest park, which is itself home to most of the city’s free cultural institutions (Forest Park). At the heart of the protests is a demand for the end of racist policing of public space. “You cannot control the comings and goings of citizens on your private street,” attorney Eric Banks, former St. Louis City Counselor, told St. Louis Public Radio. ‘The Undoing’ on HBO: Who Plays Elena, the Mysterious Woman in Episode 1? TOP STORIES Associated Press They argue that they were simply exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms, and were protected by Missouri’s castle doctrine law that allows the use of deadly force against intruders.
266,610, This story has been shared 165,827 times. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. All rights reserved. A mansion on Portland Place in St. Louis. “To this, day, I honestly can’t tell you if anyone who lives there is Black.”. We've received your submission. In an incident that made national news in the wake of the Ferguson protests, an off-duty cop who had been hired by residents of another private place, Flora Place, killed Black teenager VonDerrit Myers, Jr. in 2014. NPR reports 102 people were arrested in St. Paul and another 120 in Baton Rouge, including prominent Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson, who was arrested while walking along […]. Privacy Notice “‘We’re gonna burn your house, this is gonna be my bedroom, my living room and bathroom after you’re dead,’” Mark cited as an example. Legal Statement. They suddenly decided to veer onto the McCloskeys’ street, prompting the confrontation that was caught on cellphone video. Police are using their squad cars as deadly weapons in their response on Saturday to protesters decrying police violence against people of color, most recently the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. When about 300 protesters returned Friday — holdings signs reading “Black Lives Matter. “They broke down our gate. But several videos on social media showed protesters walking through an undamaged gate — and one protestor who was present confirmed to Streetsblog that the gate was not in that condition they entered the street — suggesting that the gates were damaged sometime later.
JavaScript is required for full functionality on this website, but scripting is currently disabled. Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. here’s what happens when you march on Portland Place in St. Louis, MO, they’re scared of their own community pic.twitter.com/Ng8qW1Pa6C.
Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. A spokeswoman for Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner declined comment. Quiz: Can you name these TV Shows by their catchphrases? - Google Street View If you were in St. Louis and wanted — hypothetically — to eat the rich, 1 Portland Place would be a good place to start. “I believe in my heart of hearts that the only thing that kept those mobsters, that crowd, away from us is that we were standing there with guns,” Mark McCloskey, 63, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday. When attorneys Mark and Patty McCloskey bought their home in February of 1988, it was the color of cigarette ashes. It wasn’t clear what led to that additional count, he said. During the interview, the couple sat in a room with a leopard skin rug and a red fox head mounted on the wall, but Mark insisted he is not a hunter. There were no weapons in evidence that I saw other than theirs. Your Ad Choices -
But in practice, of course, even the most violent means of spatial exclusion are often not always enforced — and who is spared falls along racial lines. This story has been shared 165,827 times. “The Hamburglar was one of the funniest,” interjected his wife, who sparked the meme after wearing a black and white striped shirt that was reminiscent of an outfit worn by the character in a McDonald’s commercial. The McCloskeys have spent years restoring their mansion, which was built more than 100 years ago by the son of Adolphus Busch, of Anheuser-Busch fame, the couple told St. Louis Magazine in a 2018 interview. They’re coming towards our house.
There was one time I did find that gate locked. https://t.co/Gignc5hO3t, — Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) June 29, 2020. The now-smashed gate directly adjacent to the McCloskey’s driveway was frequently left unlocked. “They’re angry, they’re screaming,” Mark McCloskey told Tucker Carlson on Fox News. The case has caught the attention of President Donald Trump, and Republican Missouri Gov. The gates are marked with "No Trespassing" and "Private Street" signs, he told News 4. It borders the 1,300-acre Forest Park owned by the city of St. Louis. The 1909 Edward A. Faust house, seen behind the gates of Portland Place in St. Louis’s Central West End neighborhood. The Italian Renaissance-inspired palazzo was once St. Louis' "most dazzling" mansion complete with a teak-and-ebony dance floor, a rare Aeolian house organ with 38-foot-long pipes and stained glass windows, according to the magazine. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Some may not register as easily, at least to those who have never had to consider the violent history of something as “neutral” as the curvilinear design of a street, a low iron gate, a small, calligraphic “No Trespassing” sign — or how these design features can so easily become a pretext for state-sanctioned violence against a Black body. The couple said that while they have heard from supporters, they also have been inundated with threats. Full disclosure: I’m a white St. Louisan, and I’ve personally walked down Portland Place countless times without incident.
“When Portland Place was built in 1888, people thought they were escaping the poor and the ‘wretched’ — at the time, that was code for immigrants and former slaves — and locking them out.
Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. McCloskey and his wife, Patricia, told the outlet that they had prepared for violent activists — leaving fire extinguishers in every first-floor room and a rifle in the living room — after neighborhood homeowner trustees warned them that the protest group was expected to show up. And like mayors, governors, and powerful people across the country, she participates in the protection and perpetuation of violent white supremacy in countless ways. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who confronted marchers with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun last week, kept their guns out of sight Friday when the crowd returned, looking down on the protest along with their lawyer and private security standing by. “We weren’t concerned about it until it got up to the point where the Kingshighway gate was and realized there was no security, no police, nothing to keep them from coming in,” Mark told the paper. A view of Niemann Mansion in St. Louis. AP The crowd remained … Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Moreover, there’s no evidence that unarmed protesters posed any threat to McCloskeys’ well-being — which would make their show of force an act of escalation, rather than self-defense. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. Unlike the outer-ring suburban neighborhoods that many Americans might associate with the word “subdivision,” Portland Place is actually located in the heart of one of St. Louisan’s most urbanized areas, just blocks from the region’s largest employer (Barnes Jewish Hospital), one of the region’s densest commercial corridors (Euclid Avenue), and the region’s largest park, which is itself home to most of the city’s free cultural institutions (Forest Park). At the heart of the protests is a demand for the end of racist policing of public space. “You cannot control the comings and goings of citizens on your private street,” attorney Eric Banks, former St. Louis City Counselor, told St. Louis Public Radio. ‘The Undoing’ on HBO: Who Plays Elena, the Mysterious Woman in Episode 1? TOP STORIES Associated Press They argue that they were simply exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms, and were protected by Missouri’s castle doctrine law that allows the use of deadly force against intruders.
266,610, This story has been shared 165,827 times. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. All rights reserved. A mansion on Portland Place in St. Louis. “To this, day, I honestly can’t tell you if anyone who lives there is Black.”. We've received your submission. In an incident that made national news in the wake of the Ferguson protests, an off-duty cop who had been hired by residents of another private place, Flora Place, killed Black teenager VonDerrit Myers, Jr. in 2014. NPR reports 102 people were arrested in St. Paul and another 120 in Baton Rouge, including prominent Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson, who was arrested while walking along […]. Privacy Notice “‘We’re gonna burn your house, this is gonna be my bedroom, my living room and bathroom after you’re dead,’” Mark cited as an example. Legal Statement. They suddenly decided to veer onto the McCloskeys’ street, prompting the confrontation that was caught on cellphone video. Police are using their squad cars as deadly weapons in their response on Saturday to protesters decrying police violence against people of color, most recently the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. When about 300 protesters returned Friday — holdings signs reading “Black Lives Matter. “They broke down our gate. But several videos on social media showed protesters walking through an undamaged gate — and one protestor who was present confirmed to Streetsblog that the gate was not in that condition they entered the street — suggesting that the gates were damaged sometime later.
JavaScript is required for full functionality on this website, but scripting is currently disabled. Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. here’s what happens when you march on Portland Place in St. Louis, MO, they’re scared of their own community pic.twitter.com/Ng8qW1Pa6C.
Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. A spokeswoman for Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner declined comment. Quiz: Can you name these TV Shows by their catchphrases? - Google Street View If you were in St. Louis and wanted — hypothetically — to eat the rich, 1 Portland Place would be a good place to start. “I believe in my heart of hearts that the only thing that kept those mobsters, that crowd, away from us is that we were standing there with guns,” Mark McCloskey, 63, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday. When attorneys Mark and Patty McCloskey bought their home in February of 1988, it was the color of cigarette ashes. It wasn’t clear what led to that additional count, he said. During the interview, the couple sat in a room with a leopard skin rug and a red fox head mounted on the wall, but Mark insisted he is not a hunter. There were no weapons in evidence that I saw other than theirs. Your Ad Choices -
But in practice, of course, even the most violent means of spatial exclusion are often not always enforced — and who is spared falls along racial lines. This story has been shared 165,827 times. “The Hamburglar was one of the funniest,” interjected his wife, who sparked the meme after wearing a black and white striped shirt that was reminiscent of an outfit worn by the character in a McDonald’s commercial. The McCloskeys have spent years restoring their mansion, which was built more than 100 years ago by the son of Adolphus Busch, of Anheuser-Busch fame, the couple told St. Louis Magazine in a 2018 interview. They’re coming towards our house.
There was one time I did find that gate locked. https://t.co/Gignc5hO3t, — Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) June 29, 2020. The now-smashed gate directly adjacent to the McCloskey’s driveway was frequently left unlocked. “They’re angry, they’re screaming,” Mark McCloskey told Tucker Carlson on Fox News. The case has caught the attention of President Donald Trump, and Republican Missouri Gov. The gates are marked with "No Trespassing" and "Private Street" signs, he told News 4. It borders the 1,300-acre Forest Park owned by the city of St. Louis. The 1909 Edward A. Faust house, seen behind the gates of Portland Place in St. Louis’s Central West End neighborhood. The Italian Renaissance-inspired palazzo was once St. Louis' "most dazzling" mansion complete with a teak-and-ebony dance floor, a rare Aeolian house organ with 38-foot-long pipes and stained glass windows, according to the magazine. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Some may not register as easily, at least to those who have never had to consider the violent history of something as “neutral” as the curvilinear design of a street, a low iron gate, a small, calligraphic “No Trespassing” sign — or how these design features can so easily become a pretext for state-sanctioned violence against a Black body. The couple said that while they have heard from supporters, they also have been inundated with threats. Full disclosure: I’m a white St. Louisan, and I’ve personally walked down Portland Place countless times without incident.
“When Portland Place was built in 1888, people thought they were escaping the poor and the ‘wretched’ — at the time, that was code for immigrants and former slaves — and locking them out.
Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. McCloskey and his wife, Patricia, told the outlet that they had prepared for violent activists — leaving fire extinguishers in every first-floor room and a rifle in the living room — after neighborhood homeowner trustees warned them that the protest group was expected to show up. And like mayors, governors, and powerful people across the country, she participates in the protection and perpetuation of violent white supremacy in countless ways. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who confronted marchers with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun last week, kept their guns out of sight Friday when the crowd returned, looking down on the protest along with their lawyer and private security standing by. “We weren’t concerned about it until it got up to the point where the Kingshighway gate was and realized there was no security, no police, nothing to keep them from coming in,” Mark told the paper. A view of Niemann Mansion in St. Louis. AP The crowd remained … Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Moreover, there’s no evidence that unarmed protesters posed any threat to McCloskeys’ well-being — which would make their show of force an act of escalation, rather than self-defense. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. Unlike the outer-ring suburban neighborhoods that many Americans might associate with the word “subdivision,” Portland Place is actually located in the heart of one of St. Louisan’s most urbanized areas, just blocks from the region’s largest employer (Barnes Jewish Hospital), one of the region’s densest commercial corridors (Euclid Avenue), and the region’s largest park, which is itself home to most of the city’s free cultural institutions (Forest Park). At the heart of the protests is a demand for the end of racist policing of public space. “You cannot control the comings and goings of citizens on your private street,” attorney Eric Banks, former St. Louis City Counselor, told St. Louis Public Radio. ‘The Undoing’ on HBO: Who Plays Elena, the Mysterious Woman in Episode 1? TOP STORIES Associated Press They argue that they were simply exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms, and were protected by Missouri’s castle doctrine law that allows the use of deadly force against intruders.
266,610, This story has been shared 165,827 times. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. All rights reserved. A mansion on Portland Place in St. Louis. “To this, day, I honestly can’t tell you if anyone who lives there is Black.”. We've received your submission. In an incident that made national news in the wake of the Ferguson protests, an off-duty cop who had been hired by residents of another private place, Flora Place, killed Black teenager VonDerrit Myers, Jr. in 2014. NPR reports 102 people were arrested in St. Paul and another 120 in Baton Rouge, including prominent Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson, who was arrested while walking along […]. Privacy Notice “‘We’re gonna burn your house, this is gonna be my bedroom, my living room and bathroom after you’re dead,’” Mark cited as an example. Legal Statement. They suddenly decided to veer onto the McCloskeys’ street, prompting the confrontation that was caught on cellphone video. Police are using their squad cars as deadly weapons in their response on Saturday to protesters decrying police violence against people of color, most recently the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. When about 300 protesters returned Friday — holdings signs reading “Black Lives Matter. “They broke down our gate. But several videos on social media showed protesters walking through an undamaged gate — and one protestor who was present confirmed to Streetsblog that the gate was not in that condition they entered the street — suggesting that the gates were damaged sometime later.
JavaScript is required for full functionality on this website, but scripting is currently disabled. Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. here’s what happens when you march on Portland Place in St. Louis, MO, they’re scared of their own community pic.twitter.com/Ng8qW1Pa6C.
Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. A spokeswoman for Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner declined comment. Quiz: Can you name these TV Shows by their catchphrases? - Google Street View If you were in St. Louis and wanted — hypothetically — to eat the rich, 1 Portland Place would be a good place to start. “I believe in my heart of hearts that the only thing that kept those mobsters, that crowd, away from us is that we were standing there with guns,” Mark McCloskey, 63, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday. When attorneys Mark and Patty McCloskey bought their home in February of 1988, it was the color of cigarette ashes. It wasn’t clear what led to that additional count, he said. During the interview, the couple sat in a room with a leopard skin rug and a red fox head mounted on the wall, but Mark insisted he is not a hunter. There were no weapons in evidence that I saw other than theirs. Your Ad Choices -
But in practice, of course, even the most violent means of spatial exclusion are often not always enforced — and who is spared falls along racial lines. This story has been shared 165,827 times. “The Hamburglar was one of the funniest,” interjected his wife, who sparked the meme after wearing a black and white striped shirt that was reminiscent of an outfit worn by the character in a McDonald’s commercial. The McCloskeys have spent years restoring their mansion, which was built more than 100 years ago by the son of Adolphus Busch, of Anheuser-Busch fame, the couple told St. Louis Magazine in a 2018 interview. They’re coming towards our house.
There was one time I did find that gate locked. https://t.co/Gignc5hO3t, — Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) June 29, 2020. The now-smashed gate directly adjacent to the McCloskey’s driveway was frequently left unlocked. “They’re angry, they’re screaming,” Mark McCloskey told Tucker Carlson on Fox News. The case has caught the attention of President Donald Trump, and Republican Missouri Gov. The gates are marked with "No Trespassing" and "Private Street" signs, he told News 4. It borders the 1,300-acre Forest Park owned by the city of St. Louis. The 1909 Edward A. Faust house, seen behind the gates of Portland Place in St. Louis’s Central West End neighborhood. The Italian Renaissance-inspired palazzo was once St. Louis' "most dazzling" mansion complete with a teak-and-ebony dance floor, a rare Aeolian house organ with 38-foot-long pipes and stained glass windows, according to the magazine. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Some may not register as easily, at least to those who have never had to consider the violent history of something as “neutral” as the curvilinear design of a street, a low iron gate, a small, calligraphic “No Trespassing” sign — or how these design features can so easily become a pretext for state-sanctioned violence against a Black body. The couple said that while they have heard from supporters, they also have been inundated with threats. Full disclosure: I’m a white St. Louisan, and I’ve personally walked down Portland Place countless times without incident.
“When Portland Place was built in 1888, people thought they were escaping the poor and the ‘wretched’ — at the time, that was code for immigrants and former slaves — and locking them out.
Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. McCloskey and his wife, Patricia, told the outlet that they had prepared for violent activists — leaving fire extinguishers in every first-floor room and a rifle in the living room — after neighborhood homeowner trustees warned them that the protest group was expected to show up. And like mayors, governors, and powerful people across the country, she participates in the protection and perpetuation of violent white supremacy in countless ways. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who confronted marchers with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun last week, kept their guns out of sight Friday when the crowd returned, looking down on the protest along with their lawyer and private security standing by. “We weren’t concerned about it until it got up to the point where the Kingshighway gate was and realized there was no security, no police, nothing to keep them from coming in,” Mark told the paper. A view of Niemann Mansion in St. Louis. AP The crowd remained … Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Moreover, there’s no evidence that unarmed protesters posed any threat to McCloskeys’ well-being — which would make their show of force an act of escalation, rather than self-defense. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. Unlike the outer-ring suburban neighborhoods that many Americans might associate with the word “subdivision,” Portland Place is actually located in the heart of one of St. Louisan’s most urbanized areas, just blocks from the region’s largest employer (Barnes Jewish Hospital), one of the region’s densest commercial corridors (Euclid Avenue), and the region’s largest park, which is itself home to most of the city’s free cultural institutions (Forest Park). At the heart of the protests is a demand for the end of racist policing of public space. “You cannot control the comings and goings of citizens on your private street,” attorney Eric Banks, former St. Louis City Counselor, told St. Louis Public Radio. ‘The Undoing’ on HBO: Who Plays Elena, the Mysterious Woman in Episode 1? TOP STORIES Associated Press They argue that they were simply exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms, and were protected by Missouri’s castle doctrine law that allows the use of deadly force against intruders.
266,610, This story has been shared 165,827 times. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. All rights reserved. A mansion on Portland Place in St. Louis. “To this, day, I honestly can’t tell you if anyone who lives there is Black.”. We've received your submission. In an incident that made national news in the wake of the Ferguson protests, an off-duty cop who had been hired by residents of another private place, Flora Place, killed Black teenager VonDerrit Myers, Jr. in 2014. NPR reports 102 people were arrested in St. Paul and another 120 in Baton Rouge, including prominent Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson, who was arrested while walking along […]. Privacy Notice “‘We’re gonna burn your house, this is gonna be my bedroom, my living room and bathroom after you’re dead,’” Mark cited as an example. Legal Statement. They suddenly decided to veer onto the McCloskeys’ street, prompting the confrontation that was caught on cellphone video. Police are using their squad cars as deadly weapons in their response on Saturday to protesters decrying police violence against people of color, most recently the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. When about 300 protesters returned Friday — holdings signs reading “Black Lives Matter. “They broke down our gate. But several videos on social media showed protesters walking through an undamaged gate — and one protestor who was present confirmed to Streetsblog that the gate was not in that condition they entered the street — suggesting that the gates were damaged sometime later.
JavaScript is required for full functionality on this website, but scripting is currently disabled. Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. here’s what happens when you march on Portland Place in St. Louis, MO, they’re scared of their own community pic.twitter.com/Ng8qW1Pa6C.
Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. A spokeswoman for Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner declined comment. Quiz: Can you name these TV Shows by their catchphrases? - Google Street View If you were in St. Louis and wanted — hypothetically — to eat the rich, 1 Portland Place would be a good place to start. “I believe in my heart of hearts that the only thing that kept those mobsters, that crowd, away from us is that we were standing there with guns,” Mark McCloskey, 63, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday. When attorneys Mark and Patty McCloskey bought their home in February of 1988, it was the color of cigarette ashes. It wasn’t clear what led to that additional count, he said. During the interview, the couple sat in a room with a leopard skin rug and a red fox head mounted on the wall, but Mark insisted he is not a hunter. There were no weapons in evidence that I saw other than theirs. Your Ad Choices -
But in practice, of course, even the most violent means of spatial exclusion are often not always enforced — and who is spared falls along racial lines. This story has been shared 165,827 times. “The Hamburglar was one of the funniest,” interjected his wife, who sparked the meme after wearing a black and white striped shirt that was reminiscent of an outfit worn by the character in a McDonald’s commercial. The McCloskeys have spent years restoring their mansion, which was built more than 100 years ago by the son of Adolphus Busch, of Anheuser-Busch fame, the couple told St. Louis Magazine in a 2018 interview. They’re coming towards our house.
There was one time I did find that gate locked. https://t.co/Gignc5hO3t, — Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) June 29, 2020. The now-smashed gate directly adjacent to the McCloskey’s driveway was frequently left unlocked. “They’re angry, they’re screaming,” Mark McCloskey told Tucker Carlson on Fox News. The case has caught the attention of President Donald Trump, and Republican Missouri Gov. The gates are marked with "No Trespassing" and "Private Street" signs, he told News 4. It borders the 1,300-acre Forest Park owned by the city of St. Louis. The 1909 Edward A. Faust house, seen behind the gates of Portland Place in St. Louis’s Central West End neighborhood. The Italian Renaissance-inspired palazzo was once St. Louis' "most dazzling" mansion complete with a teak-and-ebony dance floor, a rare Aeolian house organ with 38-foot-long pipes and stained glass windows, according to the magazine. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Some may not register as easily, at least to those who have never had to consider the violent history of something as “neutral” as the curvilinear design of a street, a low iron gate, a small, calligraphic “No Trespassing” sign — or how these design features can so easily become a pretext for state-sanctioned violence against a Black body. The couple said that while they have heard from supporters, they also have been inundated with threats. Full disclosure: I’m a white St. Louisan, and I’ve personally walked down Portland Place countless times without incident.
“When Portland Place was built in 1888, people thought they were escaping the poor and the ‘wretched’ — at the time, that was code for immigrants and former slaves — and locking them out.
Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. McCloskey and his wife, Patricia, told the outlet that they had prepared for violent activists — leaving fire extinguishers in every first-floor room and a rifle in the living room — after neighborhood homeowner trustees warned them that the protest group was expected to show up. And like mayors, governors, and powerful people across the country, she participates in the protection and perpetuation of violent white supremacy in countless ways. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who confronted marchers with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun last week, kept their guns out of sight Friday when the crowd returned, looking down on the protest along with their lawyer and private security standing by. “We weren’t concerned about it until it got up to the point where the Kingshighway gate was and realized there was no security, no police, nothing to keep them from coming in,” Mark told the paper. A view of Niemann Mansion in St. Louis. AP The crowd remained … Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Moreover, there’s no evidence that unarmed protesters posed any threat to McCloskeys’ well-being — which would make their show of force an act of escalation, rather than self-defense. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. Unlike the outer-ring suburban neighborhoods that many Americans might associate with the word “subdivision,” Portland Place is actually located in the heart of one of St. Louisan’s most urbanized areas, just blocks from the region’s largest employer (Barnes Jewish Hospital), one of the region’s densest commercial corridors (Euclid Avenue), and the region’s largest park, which is itself home to most of the city’s free cultural institutions (Forest Park). At the heart of the protests is a demand for the end of racist policing of public space. “You cannot control the comings and goings of citizens on your private street,” attorney Eric Banks, former St. Louis City Counselor, told St. Louis Public Radio. ‘The Undoing’ on HBO: Who Plays Elena, the Mysterious Woman in Episode 1? TOP STORIES Associated Press They argue that they were simply exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms, and were protected by Missouri’s castle doctrine law that allows the use of deadly force against intruders.
He declined to say if either weapon was loaded. It’s just not possible. “The bottom line was, I was there to protect my family and my house and myself.”.
The evection of unhoused people underneath a highway overpass in St. Louis race is serious questions, not only about city policy, but about a national trend of criminalizing people without homes. They say protesters came onto the private street after knocking over an iron gate and ignoring a “No Trespassing sign,” and said they felt threatened. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. “They’ve got spittle coming out of their mouths. It showed Mark McCloskey in front of the $1.15 million home armed with an AR-15 rifle and Patricia McCloskey with a semiautomatic handgun.
The photos also show private security guards setting up barricades and securing the gate prior to Friday’s new demonstration. The median home value in Central West End is $336,532, which is far higher than the city's overall median home value of $131,150. “They had no reason to fear, leadership was actively moving people away from them, they were just incensed to see people dare to be on their private street.
Nine people involved in the protest were charged with misdemeanor trespassing, but the city counselor’s office later dropped the charges. The McCloskeys were also part of restoring St. Louis' historic Niemann Mansion, where their law firm is located. The shoeless couple made national headlines for pointing their semiautomatic rifle and pistol at the crowd, and were eventually charged for the acts. ST. LOUIS — A grand jury on Tuesday indicted the St. Louis couple who displayed guns while hundreds of racial injustice protesters marched on their private street. On my walk, I’d entered Portland Place from Lake Avenue, a connecting street that isn’t gated.
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266,610, This story has been shared 165,827 times. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. All rights reserved. A mansion on Portland Place in St. Louis. “To this, day, I honestly can’t tell you if anyone who lives there is Black.”. We've received your submission. In an incident that made national news in the wake of the Ferguson protests, an off-duty cop who had been hired by residents of another private place, Flora Place, killed Black teenager VonDerrit Myers, Jr. in 2014. NPR reports 102 people were arrested in St. Paul and another 120 in Baton Rouge, including prominent Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson, who was arrested while walking along […]. Privacy Notice “‘We’re gonna burn your house, this is gonna be my bedroom, my living room and bathroom after you’re dead,’” Mark cited as an example. Legal Statement. They suddenly decided to veer onto the McCloskeys’ street, prompting the confrontation that was caught on cellphone video. Police are using their squad cars as deadly weapons in their response on Saturday to protesters decrying police violence against people of color, most recently the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. When about 300 protesters returned Friday — holdings signs reading “Black Lives Matter. “They broke down our gate. But several videos on social media showed protesters walking through an undamaged gate — and one protestor who was present confirmed to Streetsblog that the gate was not in that condition they entered the street — suggesting that the gates were damaged sometime later.
JavaScript is required for full functionality on this website, but scripting is currently disabled. Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. here’s what happens when you march on Portland Place in St. Louis, MO, they’re scared of their own community pic.twitter.com/Ng8qW1Pa6C.
Still dirty from the days when St. Louis lay under a blanket of coal smoke, the home’s Carthage marble facing “had quarter-inch-thick carbon on it in some places,” Mark says. A spokeswoman for Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner declined comment. Quiz: Can you name these TV Shows by their catchphrases? - Google Street View If you were in St. Louis and wanted — hypothetically — to eat the rich, 1 Portland Place would be a good place to start. “I believe in my heart of hearts that the only thing that kept those mobsters, that crowd, away from us is that we were standing there with guns,” Mark McCloskey, 63, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday. When attorneys Mark and Patty McCloskey bought their home in February of 1988, it was the color of cigarette ashes. It wasn’t clear what led to that additional count, he said. During the interview, the couple sat in a room with a leopard skin rug and a red fox head mounted on the wall, but Mark insisted he is not a hunter. There were no weapons in evidence that I saw other than theirs. Your Ad Choices -
But in practice, of course, even the most violent means of spatial exclusion are often not always enforced — and who is spared falls along racial lines. This story has been shared 165,827 times. “The Hamburglar was one of the funniest,” interjected his wife, who sparked the meme after wearing a black and white striped shirt that was reminiscent of an outfit worn by the character in a McDonald’s commercial. The McCloskeys have spent years restoring their mansion, which was built more than 100 years ago by the son of Adolphus Busch, of Anheuser-Busch fame, the couple told St. Louis Magazine in a 2018 interview. They’re coming towards our house.
There was one time I did find that gate locked. https://t.co/Gignc5hO3t, — Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) June 29, 2020. The now-smashed gate directly adjacent to the McCloskey’s driveway was frequently left unlocked. “They’re angry, they’re screaming,” Mark McCloskey told Tucker Carlson on Fox News. The case has caught the attention of President Donald Trump, and Republican Missouri Gov. The gates are marked with "No Trespassing" and "Private Street" signs, he told News 4. It borders the 1,300-acre Forest Park owned by the city of St. Louis. The 1909 Edward A. Faust house, seen behind the gates of Portland Place in St. Louis’s Central West End neighborhood. The Italian Renaissance-inspired palazzo was once St. Louis' "most dazzling" mansion complete with a teak-and-ebony dance floor, a rare Aeolian house organ with 38-foot-long pipes and stained glass windows, according to the magazine. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Some may not register as easily, at least to those who have never had to consider the violent history of something as “neutral” as the curvilinear design of a street, a low iron gate, a small, calligraphic “No Trespassing” sign — or how these design features can so easily become a pretext for state-sanctioned violence against a Black body. The couple said that while they have heard from supporters, they also have been inundated with threats. Full disclosure: I’m a white St. Louisan, and I’ve personally walked down Portland Place countless times without incident.
“When Portland Place was built in 1888, people thought they were escaping the poor and the ‘wretched’ — at the time, that was code for immigrants and former slaves — and locking them out.
Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. McCloskey and his wife, Patricia, told the outlet that they had prepared for violent activists — leaving fire extinguishers in every first-floor room and a rifle in the living room — after neighborhood homeowner trustees warned them that the protest group was expected to show up. And like mayors, governors, and powerful people across the country, she participates in the protection and perpetuation of violent white supremacy in countless ways. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who confronted marchers with a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun last week, kept their guns out of sight Friday when the crowd returned, looking down on the protest along with their lawyer and private security standing by. “We weren’t concerned about it until it got up to the point where the Kingshighway gate was and realized there was no security, no police, nothing to keep them from coming in,” Mark told the paper. A view of Niemann Mansion in St. Louis. AP The crowd remained … Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Moreover, there’s no evidence that unarmed protesters posed any threat to McCloskeys’ well-being — which would make their show of force an act of escalation, rather than self-defense. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Two St. Louis-area personal injury lawyers, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, became the subject of a media firestorm — and more than a few biting memes — when they brandished guns at a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters marching past the couple’s palatial mansion on Sunday evening. Unlike the outer-ring suburban neighborhoods that many Americans might associate with the word “subdivision,” Portland Place is actually located in the heart of one of St. Louisan’s most urbanized areas, just blocks from the region’s largest employer (Barnes Jewish Hospital), one of the region’s densest commercial corridors (Euclid Avenue), and the region’s largest park, which is itself home to most of the city’s free cultural institutions (Forest Park). At the heart of the protests is a demand for the end of racist policing of public space. “You cannot control the comings and goings of citizens on your private street,” attorney Eric Banks, former St. Louis City Counselor, told St. Louis Public Radio. ‘The Undoing’ on HBO: Who Plays Elena, the Mysterious Woman in Episode 1? TOP STORIES Associated Press They argue that they were simply exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms, and were protected by Missouri’s castle doctrine law that allows the use of deadly force against intruders.
