A truck driver who backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area – the site of earlier protests against federal immigration agents – was shot at by law enforcement officers and wounded, authorities said Friday.

The driver was being held for a mental health evaluation after “attempting to weaponize the vehicle to ram into Coast Guard Base Alameda ” on Thursday night, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted on X. A bystander was struck by a fragment, treated at a hospital and released, the statement said.

No Coast Guard personnel were hurt. They issued “multiple verbal commands” to stop, but the driver failed to comply, “suddenly accelerating backwards at a high rate of speed directly toward them,” the statement said.

“When the vehicle’s actions posed a dir

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