From CBS News: Officers opened fire Thursday night at a vehicle backing into a line of Coast Guard and law enforcement personnel outside the U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda, site of a day-long protest against what was originally planned as an immigration enforcement surge in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A KPIX photographer at the scene captured video showing a U-Haul truck reversing toward the base entrance and law enforcement firing their weapons at the vehicle.
Photographer Rick Villaroman said the U-Haul had been parked outside the base for the better part of the day until it inexplicably began to reverse quickly toward officers blocking off the gate.
“He just hit the gas and sped towards them,” Villaroman said. “And that’s when they opened fire. About 20 to 30 rounds.”
In Villaroman’s video of the incident, the U-Haul truck is seen defiantly backing straight toward the officers guarding the gate, coming very near them before they finally opened fire on the vehicle.
The driver then stopped, and pulled forward, before stopping again. He reportedly later parked the U-Haul and then left the scene by some other method. It is unclear whether he walked away from the base or was driven by someone else.
CBS News explains that the Coast Guard base was originally to have been the staging area for a planned immigration enforcement surge by Border Patrol agents in the San Francisco Bay Area, and protesters had been gathering outside the base all day Thursday.
However, Trump had announced earlier on Thursday that the planned surge of troops for San Francisco had been called off for now, yet the protesters continued engaging in a standoff with officers at the base, and some protesters kept trying to block vehicles from going through the gates.
Villaroman said the driver of the U-Haul truck had been participating in the protest and “causing trouble” all day, prior to him getting into the truck and attempting to ram it into the officers.
Two nearby protesters were also struck by the truck, according to witnesses.
According to The Mercury News, two men showed up at local hospitals for gunshot wounds after the shooting, and one of them is believed to be the driver of the U-Haul, but officials have not confirmed whether the driver was in fact injured, or arrested.
After the shooting, the protesters mostly all dispersed, the report states.
WATCH the alarming incident below, including the interview with the photographer who witnessed the entire episode:
The U.S. Coast Guard released the following statement:
At approximately 10:00 p.m. (PDT) on Thursday, Coast Guard security personnel standing watch on Coast Guard Island observed a vehicle driving erratically and attempting to back into Coast Guard Base Alameda.
Coast Guard personnel issued multiple verbal commands to stop the vehicle, the driver failed to comply and proceeded to put the vehicle in reverse. 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.
No Coast Guard personnel were injured during the incident. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the lead agency for this investigation and we are coordinating with our law enforcement partners.
Additional information will be released as it becomes available.
ALAMEDA, Calif. — At approximately 10:00 p.m. (PDT) on Thursday, Coast Guard security personnel standing watch on Coast Guard Island observed a vehicle driving erratically and attempting to back into Coast Guard Base Alameda.
⁰Coast Guard personnel issued multiple verbal…— U.S. Coast Guard (@USCG) October 24, 2025
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