Two weeks after a protest against federal immigration actions shut down the bridge to the U.S. Coast Guard base near Oakland — where a chaotic shooting left two people injured — the Coast Guard is moving to ensure that such demonstrations can’t happen there again.
In an email sent Monday to Oakland’s director of real estate, a Coast Guard official said the military branch was seeking “permanent control” of the bridge entrance, a small section extending from the intersection of Embarcadero and Dennison streets west toward the island.
In the email, Jordan Converse, the Coast Guard’s chief of planning and real property for Oakland, said the Coast Guard was interested in extending its “security footprint” around the base, but did not reference the recent protests that drew hundreds of demonstrators…