A 26-year-old Oakland resident has been charged after allegedly driving a U-Haul truck toward U.S. Coast Guard personnel at Coast Guard Base Alameda last month, forcing officers to open fire in a tense late-night incident caught on video.
According to court documents unsealed on Tuesday, the suspect, identified as Brendan Munro Thompson, who also uses the names Bella Thompson and Bella Castillo, is accused of assaulting federal officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Thompson made an initial court appearance earlier the same day, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, Craig Missakian, confirmed.
The confrontation happened on 23 October after a day of protests against a planned federal immigration enforcement surge in the San Francisco Bay Area. The operation was later called off. Coast Guard personnel were guarding the entrance of the base, located on a man-made island in the Oakland Estuary, when demonstrators gathered near the
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