Newly obtained surveillance video captured near a protest of planned San Francisco immigration raids last week shows what happened in the minutes after a U-Haul truck drove in reverse toward a line of Coast Guard personnel at an island base near Alameda, prompting them to open fire.
Why the driver of the U-Haul backed toward a checkpoint at the bridge entrance to Coast Guard Base Alameda remains unclear. The incident occurred just before 10 p.m. Thursday, when all but a few protesters opposed to the arrival of U.S. Border Patrol agents there had dispersed. In video of the shooting previously released by KTVU, the truck was seen driving away.
Department of Homeland Security officials said the next day that both the U-Haul driver and a bystander were injured. The bystander was struck by a fragment and released from a hospital, while the driver was “wounded in the stomach” and was later held for a mental health evaluation, the DHS statement said…