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Two people shot, wounded outside a Coast Guard base where protesters rallied against a possible federal immigration crackdown in San Francisco.
Two people were wounded when an "erratic" driver prompted a shooting at the Coast Guard Base Alameda, located on a small island next to Oakland, Oakland, officials said.
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Law enforcement officers fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had earlier been the site of protests against federal immigration agents, and hours after President Donald Trump called off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco to quell crime.
Video shows security officers opening fire on a U-Haul truck that was reversing toward them near a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area during an anti-ICE immigration protest.
The FBI said that one of the people who was shot during a protest outside of the Coast Guard base near Oakland was a subject in the investigation. That person is now in custody.
The incident could fuel tensions over the possible deployment of federal agents to San Francisco, which has been put on hold.
After a day of largely peaceful protests in the Bay Area against federal immigration forces, shots were fired Thursday evening as a lone vehicle tried to enter the bridge to Coast Guard Island.
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Coast Guard Island in the Oakland Estuary has been used to bust rum-runners and patrol the Pacific. This week, it was the center of immigration enforcement protests. Here's a look at its history.
Federal agents fired on a U-Haul truck backing into them at a Coast Guard base near San Francisco. It comes a day after a minister was hit in the face by a flash bang.
Law enforcement officers shot at a truck outside of a U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda, Calif., late Thursday night, as protests over the Trump administration’s immigration agenda rage on.
The Coast Guard shares family’s harrowing radio call for help after their vessel caught fire off Cape Cod on Monday. They managed to swim to a small island before being rescued. (Credit: WCVB / USCG)