{"id":19255,"date":"2020-07-06T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19255"},"modified":"2020-07-06T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T19:33:09","slug":"protestors-are-back-to-intimidate-armed-couple-who-defended-their-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19255","title":{"rendered":"Protestors are back to intimidate armed couple who defended their property"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Hundreds Of \u2018Justice\u2019 Protesters Return To Armed Couple\u2019s Home<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19257\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19257\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19257\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1224640830.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1224640830.jpg 800w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1224640830-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1224640830-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael B. Thomas\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Protesting against people defending their property.<\/h3>\n<p>SUMMIT News<\/p>\n<p><strong>After a couple gained notoriety last week for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/06\/29\/video-shows-armed-residents-defending-luxurious-home-from-blm-mob\/\">taking up arms to defend their home<\/a>\u00a0in St Louis from protesters who broke into the private property, hundreds returned to the scene this past weekend, vowing that the couple shouldn\u2019t be allowed to live in peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/protesters-return-st-louis-area-015424373.html?guccounter=1\">The AP reported<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cProtesters marched along the busy public boulevard called Kingshighway, which intersects with Portland Place, a private street that is the site of the Renaissance palazzo-style home of Mark McCloskey, 61, and his 63-year-old wife, Patricia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=BreitbartNews&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1279255837639430144&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fsocial-justice%2F2020%2F07%2F05%2Fvideo-hundreds-return-protest-outside-armed-couples-home-st-louis%2F&amp;siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=550px\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1279255837639430144\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The report notes that protesters lingered close to the\u00a0McCloskeys\u2019 house for around 15 minutes, without this time trespassing through the barriers to the private street.<\/p>\n<p>The couple appear to have hired security personnel, as around a dozen \u2018men in plain clothes\u2019 were seen surrounding the property.<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows the protesters chanting\u00a0\u201cIf we don\u2019t get no justice, then they don\u2019t get no peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark McCloskey was interviewed by Tucker Carlson last week, telling the host that he feared for his life during the first incident.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CiIZTVuSUiY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was literally afraid\u00a0that within seconds they would\u00a0surmount the wall, and come into\u00a0the house, kill us, burn the house\u00a0down and everything that I had\u00a0worked for and struggled for\u00a0for\u00a0the last 32 years,\u201d Mr\u00a0McCloskey noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw it all going up in\u00a0flames, and my life destroyed in\u00a0an instant. And I did what I\u00a0thought I had to do to protect\u00a0my hearth, my home and\u00a0my family,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n<p>In a further interview with CNN\u2019s Chris Cuomo, McCloskey urged that the incident represents a \u2018broader horrible picture of what\u2019s going on in America right now\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9yuHKYCcvmQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating last week\u2019s incident as a case of trespassing and fourth-degree assault by intimidation, according to the St. Louis Dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/07\/06\/hundreds-of-justice-protesters-returned-to-armed-couples-home\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/07\/06\/hundreds-of-justice-protesters-returned-to-armed-couples-home\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds Of \u2018Justice\u2019 Protesters Return To Armed Couple\u2019s Home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}