What made the McCloskeys’ indignant address to the Republican National Convention so jarring was the heartfelt tragedy of the speech it followed. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who were each charged with unlawful use of a weapon after wielding guns at unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters in their wealthy district of St Louis in June, cast themselves as the tribunes of a suburbia that a Biden presidency would destroy. Packed tightly on a sofa in a grandly furnished living room, they stared straight down the camera into millions of households like a dystopian version of Steph and Dom from Gogglebox. “What you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to any of you who are watching from quiet neighbourhoods around our country,” Mrs

Source: The Times August 25, 2020 05:37 UTC