OAKLAND — The girl accused of driving a U-Haul truck into dwell gunfire at Alameda’s Coast Guard Island throughout immigration protests in October is out on bail, in response to a number of media studies.
Bella Thompson, 26, charged by federal prosecutors with one rely of assault on a federal officer, stepped out of Santa Rita Jail Friday morning, NBC Bay Space reported.
Often known as Bella Castillo, she first appeared in an Oakland courtroom earlier this month. She faces as much as 20 years in jail if convicted. A public defender stated at a latest listening to that the incident on the middle of the case “(has) been borne out of an acute mental health issue.”
Throughout the Oct. 23 incident, Thompson and one other bystander suffered gunshot wounds in what seemed to be the height of a heated day of protests in response to threats by President Donald Trump to ship a swarm of federal brokers for an immigration crackdown within the Bay Space.
However the brokers by no means got here, reportedly following discussions Trump had with a number of the area’s officers and tech executives.
