A Saturday morning confrontation between federal immigration agents and a local family in San Bernardino escalated into gunfire and a seven-hour standoff before ending without arrests, according to both advocates and police.
The incident began at about 8:40 a.m. on Aug. 16, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stopped a man in the area, according to the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice. The advocacy group said the agents, who did not present a warrant, fired three times at the man’s vehicle before he returned home with his family and called 911.
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San Bernardino police confirmed in a statement that officers were dispatched at 8:51 a.m. following reports of shots fired. When officers arrived, they encountered federal agents who told them they had been involved in an officer-involved shooting and that the suspect had fled.
Shortly after, the man contacted police dispatchers himself, saying “masked men” had broken his car window and fired at him, according to the statement. The man, who said he did not know the agents’ identities, requested police assistance. Officers later located him on Mountain View Drive but did not intervene further, citing the California Values Act, which prohibits local law enforcement from assisting with immigration enforcement…