Owners or renters, if the land isn’t owned nor rented then it’s much harder to make a self defense case. It is owned by the couple, so easy legal defense.
Yeah - That's the latest little theory going around on the liberal sites (like Quora and Reddit) highly populated by over-educated liberal “authorities”: The rioters (er, peaceful protesters) were standing on HOA ground, not “private property” and so the rioters (er, pieces of protesters) were on “community ground” and so could be rioting and threatening all they want.