Define 'largely docile'

The Washington Post reporter Theo Armus had a sentence "Liberals have labeled the couple as a pair of racists and accused them of breaking the law, riled up by the mere presence of a largely docile crowd."

What is a "largely docile crowd?" Does that mean only a few of the so-called crowd (which had just broken down an iron gate) had weapons? At what point do they become a threat that the homeowners can protect themselves from? Easy for the so-called liberals to critique them when they weren't there.

Thanks for the Second Amendment.

Denis M. Bohm

Mettawa