What Kam said - if the Saint Loonies support BLM they could have posted that in a window. Nobody was threatening their home until they escalated aggressively and started brandishing weapons. Think this through: why weren't other homes along the route threatened?
As for " they were in fear of their lives... " isn't that what a lot of cops who have murdered unarmed citizens offer as a defense? Isn't that the kind of rationale that the BLM movement and city governments are subjecting to scrutiny? How ODD that lawyers, styling themselves as civil rights champions, would go right for that particular justification.