The husband of Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey pulled a gun on Black Lives Matter protesters who showed up on the couple’s doorstep in Granada Hills early Monday morning, just a day before voters were set to go to the polls to choose between her and two opponents.

Police were called to the Granada Hills home at 5:40 a.m. after the BLM protesters appeared on the sidewalk there, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.

Footage from the scene showed about dozen protesters out on the sidewalk chanting and holding signs.

A 45-second video posted by Melina Abdullah, a Cal State Los Angeles professor, showed what happened next: Abdullah rings the doorbell, and a man opens the door. He points a gun at her and others on the porch.

“Get off of my porch!” he says. “I will shoot you. … We’re calling the police.”

He closed the door, and a protester can be heard saying, “Wow.”

In the post, Abdullah says: “Her husband pulled a gun … pointed it at my chest.”

Video of the confrontation — published to social media within minutes of the incident occurring — comes on the eve of election day, with the two-term incumbent Lacey facing a fierce campaign to oust her.

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 pic.twitter.com/WtazUWSJIC — Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) March 2, 2020

Local activists have criticized Lacey for years on her record of refusing to bring charges against hundreds of police officers across the county who were involved in fatal shootings. BLM has cited around 400 such cases since 2012.

In that time, Lacey’s office has charged one on-duty local officer for a fatal shooting: L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Luke Liu, who was accused of shooting a man to death during a traffic stop of a vehicle at a Norwalk gas station in 2016.

Former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon and former L.A. County and federal public defender Rachel Rossi are running to replace Lacey. Both represent a wave of progressive candidates campaigning for district attorneys offices nationwide.

Gascon’s campaign has not responded to a request for comment on the incident. Rossi’s campaign said in an email that protesters arriving at Lacey’s door was the result of her years of “refusal to meet with and listen to the very people who elected her and who she has ignored since 2016.”

LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division is investigating the incident after receiving a report of an assault with a deadly weapon, according to a spokesman for the agency. LAPD so far has not named a suspect, despite Lacey confirming it was her husband.

Lacey said she was removing her office from any investigation of her husband. She said the California Attorney General’s Office would handle any potential prosecution.

Midmorning at the Hall of Justice in Downtown L.A., Lacey confirmed the man with the gun was her husband, David, a retired D.A.’s investigative auditor, according to her office.

She said he was reacting out of fear, and that he offered an apology to the protesters once he reconsidered what he had done. She said the handgun was registered.

“He is profoundly sorry,” a clearly emotional Jackie Lacey said. “He meant no one any harm…that is was just him and I in that house, and we really didn’t know what was about to happen.”

Outside about a half hour after Jackie Lacey’s statements, the BLM activists who were at the D.A.’s house that morning said they were still traumatized from what happened.

Pressing her hand to her heart, Abdullah said the feeling of that moment hadn’t left her yet.

“I can feel where he pointed the gun at me,” she said. “I can still feel the energy of it.”

The longtime activist’s eyes welled up. She said she rang the doorbell to invite Lacey to an impromptu community meeting on the sidewalk outside.

Abdullah and other BLM members said for years they have tried to get Lacey in to town hall meetings with black communities across L.A. They said they’ve resorted to showing up at the D.A.’s events to pressure her in to following through on an agreement.

For her part, Lacey said she responded to BLM with a time and place to meet, but was rebuffed herself.

Both sides have now accused each other of taking the debate over police killings to another level.

“Believe it or not, the Lacey’s are private people,” Jackie Lacey said. “We expect that people will exercise their First Amendment rights, but our home is our sanctuary… I do not believe it is fair, or right, for protesters to show up to the homes of people who dedicate their lives to public service.”

She said she’s been met with death threats. At a forum where activists appeared, Lacey said she spoke about her father being shot in front of their South L.A. home when she was a kid.

“Good,” Lacey said one of the activists shouted. When she informed him her father survived, she said the man said, “That’s too bad.”

It’s not clear if the activists threatening her were actual BLM members.

Abdullah said the civil rights group was considering asking LAPD to press for charges against David Lacey.

“I’ve had 12 attorneys call me already today saying I should do that,” she said. “I haven’t processed it yet.”

Abdullah said BLM protesters had demonstrated outside Lacey’s home before without so much as being shooed away. They expected not to hear from the family, just like last time.