On Thursday night, shots were fired at a Coast Guard facility in California after a U-Haul truck approached the entrance and ignored security commands to halt, according to Coast Guard officials.
Footage capturing the tense scene shows the truck, headlights on, reversing toward security officers positioned near a vehicle at Coast Guard Base Alameda around 10 p.m. As officers called out commands from behind a barricade, gunfire erupted. Subsequently, the driver accelerated the truck forward.
The U.S. Coast Guard reported that personnel on Coast Guard Island observed the U-Haul behaving erratically as it attempted to back into the base.
After ignoring repeated commands to stop, security officers at the entrance fired live rounds at the U-Haul, the Coast Guard confirmed.
“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,” the Coast Guard stated in a press release.
“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,” the branch said in a statement.
Police officers investigate a U-Haul truck outside Coast Guard Island Alameda in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 23, 2025. Coast Guard police opened fire after the truck backed toward the base’s entrance, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents were reportedly staying amid plans for increased immigration enforcement in the Bay Area. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The Coast Guard confirmed no personnel were injured during the incident.
The incident followed a protest outside the entrance on Thursday, during which demonstrators attempted to block U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents from entering the base, according to ABC7.
Dozens of California Highway Patrol officers wearing riot gear tried to disperse the crowd in order to allow civilian employees to leave, which resulted in two people being detained and taken away, the outlet reported.
A law enforcement officer confronts demonstrators protesting immigration operations outside Coast Guard Base Alameda in California on Thursday. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
President Trump on Thursday announced that his planned “surge” of federal troops to San Francisco had been postponed after he spoke with friends of his in the area who said the city’s mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making progress in tackling crime.
Trump said on Truth Social that he spoke to Lurie and agreed to call off the move for now.
