After years of demanding Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey meet with her constituents of color, activists took the protest directly to her house and were startled when Lacey’s husband opened the door with a gun pointed at them.
A video, shared by Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and several other high-profile liberal Twitter accounts on Monday morning, shows an older black man who appears to be David Lacey, the husband of Jackie Lacey, pointing a gun and saying “I will shoot you” toward an unseen group of California activists and community members a day before California holds its Super Tuesday primary.
“Get off of my porch!” said the man in the video circulating on Twitter. “I will shoot you, get off of my porch. I don’t care who you are, get off of my porch right now.”
Critics say the district attorney has failed to fulfill promises to meet with a portion of the black community that is upset about her failure to act on police violence during her term. In late January, activists attended a public debate at the Aratani Theatre in Los Angeles featuring her. Several people were escorted out by security guards after they disrupted the event, demanding justice for members of their community who were killed by police.
“The people who showed up at her door, are family members of people who were killed by the police,” said Jasmyne Cannick, a Democratic candidate for the County City Committee of Los Angeles during a phone call with the Washington Examiner. “They know that those people are brothers and sisters and are unarmed. What if somebody had dropped their phone because they got scared and that triggered Mr. Lacey into thinking somebody was throwing something at him or doing something, and he shot one of them?”
Cannick also noted Jackie Lacey’s decision not to prosecute Democratic super donor Ed Buck in the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, saying it was federal prosecutors, not Lacey, who brought charges against Buck. Buck was arrested and charged with operating a drug house and three counts of battery after a third man overdosed on methamphetamine in his California home.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office and the Los Angeles Police Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
#BREAKING This morning Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s husband pulled a gun out on Black Lives Matter activists who protested his wife in front of their house. @BLMLA pic.twitter.com/wnCFMMvaWV
— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) March 2, 2020
