Two people were hit by gunfire after security officers opened fire on the driver of a U-Haul truck that tried to ram into the entrance to Coast Guard Alameda Station.
Two people were injured after law enforcement opened fire on a U-Haul truck Thursday night that attempted to back into the entrance to Coast Guard Station Alameda.
This happened around 10 p.m. while protesters were demonstrating against a potential federal immigration crackdown.
The truck drove away and no Coast Guard personnel were hurt, the Coast Guard said in a statement.
The Department of Homeland Security released as statement saying that the truck driver and a bystander were injured. The truck driver was shot in the stomach and is being held for mental health evaluation. The bystander was hit by a fragment, treated at the hospital, and released.
Video from the scene shows the U-Haul truck trying to back into the base.
"Coast Guard personnel issued multiple verbal commands to stop the vehicle, the driver failed to comply and proceeded to put the vehicle in reverse," the Coast Guard statement said. "When the vehicle's actions posed a direct threat to the safety of Coast Guard and security personnel, law enforcement officers discharged several rounds of live fire."
ABC7 News spoke with a protester who was on the scene and saw what happened, saying the driver was a lone actor.
"None of the protesters know the driver, we don't know the name, we don't know where he went," he told ABC7 News. "And then after that, we tried to let the Coast Guard know that we were peaceful. They weren't really talking back to us. They were just telling us not to go onto the bridge."
The FBI is leading the investigation and says it was an isolated incident and there is no danger to the public.