Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Friday that her department won’t tolerate violence like the truck that rammed into a Coast Guard station in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday night.
Watch Noem’s remarks in the video player above.
She said during a news conference in Minneapolis that she had discussed the incident with Trump and suggested the president could change his mind about holding off a federal enforcement surge if more violence occurs.
If they “don’t figure out how to protect our law enforcement officers and protect our Coast Guard members, that we would be forced to come in and protect those individuals,” she said.
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 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.
