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  • 2020-06-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Couple Dubbed 'Ken and Karen' Point Guns at Protesters? (en)
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  • On June 28, 2020, a video supposedly showing two people pointing weapons at a group of protesters went viral on social media: This is a genuine video. It was taken by Daniel Shular, a photographer for the Columbia Missourian, and it is one of several photographs and videos that captured this incident. Here's a series of photographs taken by Laurie Skrivan, a photographer with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: This video was taken on June 28, 2020 in a gated community in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. On social media, the two people in the video with guns were quickly labeled Ken and Karen, a play on the Karen term that has become associated with rude, obnoxious and insufferable middle aged white women, according to Urban Dictionary. St. Louis Today identified these individuals as Mark and Patricia McCloskey, personal-injury lawyers at the McCloskey Law Center. In 2018, the McCloskey's were featured in St. Louis Magazine after finishing renovations on their Midwestern palazzo. On June 26, a few days before this protest, Mayor Lyda Krewson publicized the names and addresses of various St. Louis residents who had written to her about defunding the police department during a Facebook Live stream, which the mayor has regularly conducted during the coronavirus pandemic. The mayor was accused of doxxing these citizens and putting them in danger of retaliation. The protesters were marching to Krewson's home when they passed by the gun-toting couple. The Washington Post reported: As this video went viral, many people claimed that this couple's actions were illegal, since they were pointing their weapons at these protesters in a threatening manner. Others, however, claimed that they had the right to defend their home from and claimed that the protesters were trespassing on private property. The St. Louis Dispatch reported: The investigation into this incident is ongoing. The official police report, which we obtained from the St. Louis Police Department, lists the McCloskeys as victims No. 1 and 2, and labels the incident as a case of trespassing / assault 4th intimidation by unknown suspects: (en)
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