Hours after the incident, the embattled district attorney held a news conference downtown. No one was injured, and police did not arrest Lacey or anyone else that morning. Get off of my porch,” he said in the video. “And then her husband opened the door and pointed a gun.”įootage that was shared widely online and broadcast across local and national news shows David Lacey open the door and point a handgun in the direction of the protesters. “I thought I was being paranoid, and I said, ‘That didn’t sound good,’” Abdullah said. Jackie Lacey’s husband pulls gun on Black Lives Matter protesters at his homeĪ group of Black Lives Matter activists arrived before dawn outside the home of Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor, authorities said. McCutcheon noted that the attorney general is the chief law enforcement officer in the state, and that the crime David Lacey is accused of committing is a so-called “wobbler” - eligible to be prosecuted as either a felony or a misdemeanor.Ĭalifornia D.A. Seth McCutcheon, the deputy attorney general assigned to the case, told the judge that he only received David Lacey’s motion Thursday morning and offered limited comments. That day, Judge Patricia Hunter is expected to hear arguments on whether the attorney general’s office can proceed with the charges. Neither Lacey nor his wife was present in court, and his attorney delayed arraignment until Sept. “It is our belief that the California Constitution, Supreme Court law, government code law and the Los Angeles city charter all support that the rightful prosecutor to this case is the Los Angeles city attorney’s office.”ĭavid Lacey was scheduled to appear in court Thursday for his arraignment on three misdemeanor counts of assault with a firearm stemming from his March 2 confrontation with BLM protesters. “David and I both believe that the attorney general does not have jurisdiction under the law to prosecute this crime,” defense attorney Samuel Tyre said outside a San Fernando courthouse on Thursday.
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