Video Shows Security Opening Fire On U-haul Truck Outside Coast Guard Base In California - Beritaja

The FBI is investigating a Thursday nighttime shooting extracurricular a U.S. Coast Guard guidelines successful the San Francisco Bay Area, wherever the driver of a U-Haul motortruck reversed toward information officers who responded pinch a volley of gunfire, wounding the motorist and a civilian nearby.

In video from KPIX, the U-Haul is shown slow reversing onto the span toward the officers, who are opinionated pinch their guns aimed astatine the vehicle. People outcry arsenic the motortruck gets closer, and it abruptly accelerates. The video shows officers moving retired of the measurement arsenic respective unfastened fire; particulate flies disconnected the motortruck cab, and the sound of bullets hissing by could beryllium heard.

On Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard released a statement saying that information unit saw a conveyance “driving erratically” and reversing toward the base. The driver did not travel verbal commands to stop, the connection said, and erstwhile “the vehicle’s actions posed a nonstop threat to the information of Coast Guard and information personnel, rule enforcement officers discharged respective rounds of unrecorded fire.”

No Coast Guard members were injured during the shooting, and the FBI is investigating the case, according to the statement.

The U-Haul’s driver was wounded successful the stomach, a bystander was struck by a slug fragment, and some are expected to survive, according to a Department of Homeland Security connection posted connected X. The bystander was hospitalized and has been released.

Photographer Rick Villaroman, who recorded the video, told CBS News that the U-Haul motortruck had been parked extracurricular the guidelines until it started to reverse toward the officers.

“He conscionable deed the state and sped towards them,” Villaroman said. “And that’s erstwhile they opened fire. About 20 to 30 rounds.”

Villaroman said he saw slug holes successful the U-Haul truck. The protesters who were astatine the Coast Guard guidelines near aft the shooting, he added.

Protesters had gathered astatine Coast Guard Island, which was intended to beryllium a staging area for migration detention agents during a planned enforcement surge Saturday successful the San Francisco Bay Area.

President Trump later called disconnected the deployment, though it isn’t clear whether national officers could beryllium deployed to different San Francisco Bay Area cities.

Mayor Daniel Lurie wrote successful an X station connected Thursday that he said pinch Trump about the impending migration crackdown successful San Francisco and that the president decided to telephone disconnected the enforcement action.

“I told him the aforesaid point I told our residents: San Francisco is connected the rise. Visitors are coming back, buildings are getting leased and purchased, and workers are coming backmost to the office,” the politician said successful his statement.

“We person activity to do, and we would invited continued partnerships pinch the FBI, DEA, ATF, and U.S. Attorney to get narcotics and supplier dealers disconnected our streets, but having the subject and militarized migration enforcement successful our metropolis will inhibit our recovery,” Lurie continued. “We admit that the president understands that we are the world hub for technology, and erstwhile San Francisco is strong, our state is strong.”

In June, Los Angeles County became the first area nether the existent Trump management to spot wide migration raids successful public, which netted thousands of people, and section officials opportunity they are utilizing those experiences to trade protections. They person taken spot successful Chicago arsenic well.

A study from UC Merced calculated that the wide deportation of California’s undocumented residents — who dress up an estimated 8% of California’s workforce — would create a $275-billion spread successful the state’s economy.