Prosecutors have charged a person who allegedly accelerated a truck toward officers at a Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area , prompting a barrage of gunfire during an immigration enforcement protest last month.

Brendan Munro Thompson, who also uses the names Bella Thompson and Bella Castillo, is charged with assaulting federal officers at Coast Guard Base Alameda with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Thompson made an initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday morning, according to a press statement from U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, Craig Missakian.

Coast Guard security personnel were standing guard at the entrance to the base on Oct. 23, also known as Coast Guard Island, a man-made island in the Oakland Estuary separating Alameda and Oakl

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