{"id":65762,"date":"2025-11-22T23:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65762\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T23:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:16:06","slug":"u-haul-driver-shot-during-federal-protests-at-coast-guard-island-out-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65762\/","title":{"rendered":"U-Haul driver shot during federal protests at Coast Guard Island out on bail"},"content":{"rendered":"

OAKLAND \u2014 The woman accused of driving a U-Haul truck<\/a> into live gunfire at Alameda\u2019s Coast Guard Island during immigration protests in October is out on bail, according to multiple media reports.<\/p>\n

Bella Thompson, 26, charged by federal prosecutors with one count of assault on a federal officer, stepped out of Santa Rita Jail Friday morning, NBC Bay Area reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also known as Bella Castillo, she first appeared in an Oakland courtroom earlier this month. She faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. A public defender said at a recent hearing that the incident at the center of the case \u201c(has) been borne out of an acute mental health issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the Oct. 23 incident, Thompson and another bystander suffered gunshot wounds in what appeared to be the peak of a heated day of protests<\/a> in response to threats by President Donald Trump to send a swarm of federal agents for an immigration crackdown in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n

But the agents never came, reportedly following discussions Trump had with some of the region\u2019s officials and tech executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 The woman accused of driving a U-Haul truck into live gunfire at Alameda\u2019s Coast Guard Island…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,7,1312,138,332,181,23,100,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-65762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alameda-county","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-east-bay","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-oakland","18":"tag-oakland-headlines","19":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}