The husband of Los Angeles County's district attorney, Jackie Lacey, pulled a gun on Black Lives Matter Los Angeles (BLMLA) activists when the group decided to pull up at the Lacey residence for a protest Monday morning.

According to BLMLA, a man that appeared to be David Lacey pointed his gun at the group of protesters at 5:40 a.m. at the doorsteps of the Laceys' Granada Hills home. BLMLA protesters recorded the incident, shocked and bothered by Mr. Lacey's reaction to their nonviolent protest.

"We heard the gun cocking, and I thought I was being paranoid," Melina Abdullah, Pan-African studies professor at Cal State Los Angeles, told NBC News. "But then he opened the door, leading with the gun. He saw me and lowered it, pointing it at my chest."

Protest organizer Justin Marks told NBC that the gun Mr. Lacey was carrying was in firing position and that the district attorney's husband could have shot someone on the other side of the opened door.

David is seen yelling at what appears to be unarmed protesters on the other side, pointing a gun and demanding they leave his porch.

"I will shoot you. Get off of my porch," David allegedly said, NBC News reported. "I don't care who you are, get off my porch."

I’m front of DA Jackie Lacey’s house for that community meeting she promised with the @BLMLA crew. Rang her bell to invite her.

Her husband pulled a gun, cocked it, pointed it at my chest and said “I’ll shoot you. I don’t care who you are.” @WP4BL
@RealJusticePAC
@shaunking
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— Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) March 2, 2020

Lacey later confirmed that it was her husband who drew a gun on the crowd of protesters during a press conference on Monday. Lacey said, "We expect that people will exercise their First Amendment right, but our home is our sanctuary," and that her husband, "meant no one any harm."

The Los Angeles Police Department was notified that there was a protest taking place at the district attorney's house, but the LAPD was not aware of the alleged gun incident.

It is not certain who called the cops, but Mrs. Lacey was seen driving away from the protest in her SUV while her armed husband frantically is carrying a lethal weapon.

The optics of the husband of the district attorney threatening to shoot unarmed Black people are bad enough for Jackie, who is already being criticized for not doing enough for Black people who have been victimized by unarmed shootings and is facing a tough primary.

Thirty protesters came to the Lacey residence to discuss Jackie's handling of high-profile cases.

"I said, 'Jackie Lacey has promised us a community meeting. We're having it now. Could you please ask her to come out front?'" Abdullah said.

Even after being threatened by a handgun, protesters were still there an hour longer, The Los Angeles Times reported, holding signs that read "#ByeJackie" and "Honk if you think DA Jackie Lacey should prosecute cops who kill." Standing a few feet away, officers were watching the event unfold this time.

BLMLA has been critical of the District Attorney Office's decision not to prosecute police officers who fatally shot Ezell Ford, an unarmed Black man, in 2014.

The district attorney's missed opportunity to press any charges against the officers who shot Ford led Los Angeles City Council to approve a $1.5 million settlement to Ford's family.

Others think DA Lacey is deliberately unproductive in prosecuting Ed Buck, a prominent Democratic Party donor based in Los Angeles, who is facing federal charges for allegedly supplying two Black men methamphetamine.

Angelenos will vote on Tuesday, March 3 to decide whether or not Lacey should be reelected for another term.

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