If Lacey's husband went too far in drawing a gun, readers said, so did the protesters who showed up at her house before dawn.
With only a few exceptions, the readers who bothered to write did not likeon Jackie Lacey’s husband pointing a gun at protesters who knocked on the door of the L.A. County district attorney’s on the eve of the election.
Before I get to what Lacey told me, I have to say, I still think it wasn’t the best idea for the husband of the county’s top law enforcement official to threaten to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters. But Lacey has been somewhat circumspect about the incident, and readers came to her husband’s defense.
When I sat face to face with Lacey, she told me she knew she surrendered some of her privacy the moment she became D.A. And while she defended the 1st Amendment right of free speech, she said she objects to the tactics used by her vocal critics, some of whom disrupted a candidate forum she participated in, and she thinks her home should be off-limits.
As I said in the first column, I get her frustration. If I were a public official, I wouldn’t want people rushing me or marching on my home.Sandy Banks
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