Mark and Patricia McCloskey, could be seen aiming the guns at demonstrators who walked by their property in the wealthy Forest Park area at around 6pm on Sunday

A Missouri couple armed with an AR-15 and a handgun leveled their firearms at protesters marching past their mansion in an upscale St. Louis neighborhood, Sunday.
Husband and wife, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, could be seen aiming the guns at demonstrators who walked by their palatial property in the wealthy Forest Park area at around 6pm on Sunday.
At one point, the pair seemed to be unknowingly pointing their weapons at one another other while trying to keep protesters away from their home which also serves as a law office.

Pair of personal injury attorneys aim guns at marching demonstrators. The St. Louis couple pointed guns at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters  on Sunday

Lawyer turned vigilante: Mark McCloskey can be seen stepping out with firepower to defend his home from the perceived threat of BLM activists

The protesters were en route to the home of St. Louis Mayor, Lyda Krewson, to demand her resignation after she released the names and addresses of residents who had suggested defunding the police department.
They had broken their way into the gated community where the McCloskeys live.
The pair are both personal injury lawyers and run McCloskey Law Center from inside their extravagant home, known as the Niemann Mansion.

His client, a man, who was identified by the initials I.F., was kicked and struck by police officer David Maas in shocking dashcam footage that appeared to show him surrendering.
On April 14, 2019, Woodson Terrance Police Officer David Maas was involved in a high-speed pursuit of a suspected stolen vehicle.
According to police dash cam video, the chase ended as Isaiah Forman exited the car with his open hands in the air as he began to kneel in surrender when Maas knocked him to the ground before kicking Forman in the torso and head. In the initials March 2019 civil lawsuit made by Isaiah Forman in which the same allegations are put forward.

Officer David Maas was caught on dashcam brutalizing Isiah Foreman after he’d surrendered

Police at the time said Forman, then 21, was driving a car that had been taken by another man at gunpoint.
The lawsuit against St Louis metropolitan police officer David Maas claimed that Forman had ‘surrendered peaceably’, before he was assaulted by the cop.
David Maas was indicted in March on one count of deprivation of rights under color of law.
According to the indictment, Maas kicked and struck Forman in April 2019 while the claimant was compliant and not posing a physical threat to anyone, causing ‘bodily injury’ and depriving him of his right to be ‘free from unreasonable force’.
A lawyer for officer Maas argued that complainant, Isiah Forman, had ‘aggressively resisted arrest’ and ‘struck a police vehicle, narrowly missing a police officer in the process’.

Speaking about his client’s claims against police, Mark McCloskey said : ‘I’m glad that the law enforcement agencies are subject to the same standard as everybody else’.
Ultimately Isiah Forman plead guilty to crashing his car into a police vehicle during the chase. He is now serving a seven year sentence for second-degree assault on a special victim.
In the video recorded in front of the McCloskey home on Sunday, demonstrators chanted ‘Let’s Go’ as the couple stood their ground at their front door, patrolling back and forth.
On Monday morning, President Donald Trump retweeted footage of the couple without comment.
One video posted to Twitter of the demonstration shows Patricia McCloskey holding her gun at a protester who is wearing a t-shirt that reads, ‘Hands up, don’t shoot.’
The individual appeared to be trying to get people to move away from the house at the time.
Patricia McCloskey is then seen moving closer to the protesters engaging in an exchange as some stand and argue back, while others noting that she had a gun advised other activists to move on swiftly. 

Other demonstrators are heard shouting at everyone to ‘Go’ as the woman continues waving her handgun at them from her front lawn and Mark McCloskey watched from the front door with his rifle.
The couple confronted the group of about 300 protesters after they broke down a gate in the neighborhood, according to NBC News. Their home is located in Portland Place, a historic district in St. Louis listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The gated community has just under 100 homes, all built between 1890 and 1960.
‘These two premier private streets celebrated their 100th anniversary with 77 of the original 89 houses proudly standing as tributes to the owners and the inspired architects and skilled artisans who created them,’ a plaque awarded in 1974 reads at the entrance to the district.
The protesters Sunday, were en route to Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home to demand her resignation after she released names and addresses of residents who suggested defunding the police department.
In the pictures shared online, it doesn’t appear that any participant walking in Sunday’s protest calling for the resignation of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson was trespassing on the the McCloskey property.

However members of the Missouri bar have been reacting to the incident. St. Louis University Law professor John Amman told KSDK that the couple’s actions could possibly be classified as assault by putting protesters in fear of their safety.
The homeowners would have a right to act if they felt threatened but if the protesters were walking past their home without threatening the couple specifically, they wouldn’t have the right to threaten lethal force, Amman said.
Local attorney Don Calloway called on the Missouri Bar to revoke their licences.
‘A fellow lawyer from Missouri, a guy I know named Mark McCloskey committed an assault tonight in STL by pointing his AR 15 at peaceful protesters,’ he wrote.
‘He should be arrested and charged with assault immediately. The MO Bar should revoke their licenses.’
The Missouri Bar has stated that they are aware of the video but it was a matter for Missouri’s Chief Disciplinary Counsel.