Federal agents fire shots at man during operation in Southern California, police say

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Federal agents fired shots astatine a antheral successful Southern California during an evident migration cognition connected Saturday morning, according to the San Bernardino constabulary department.

San Bernardino constabulary accidental officers responded to Acacia Avenue and Baseline Street astatine 8:51 a.m. pursuing reports of shots being fired. At the scene, the officers spoke with national agents, who said they were progressive successful an officer-involved shooting, and the taxable fled the scene.

A abbreviated clip later, constabulary said the antheral who was changeable astatine contacted their dispatch center, stating that masked men tried to propulsion him over, broke his car model and changeable astatine him. The antheral said helium didn't cognize who they were and wanted constabulary assistance.

Officers located the man's conveyance successful the 1000 artifact of Mt. View Drive and made interaction with him. According to the department, it was unclear what helium was wanted for.

Under the California Values Act, constabulary are prohibited from assisting national officials with migration enforcement, truthful the San Bernardino officers near the scene.

Then, astatine 1:12 p.m., constabulary said the national officials requested assistance from the San Bernardino Police Department owed to a ample assemblage forming arsenic they attempted to apprehension the man. This is erstwhile the section said it learned the antheral was wanted for assaulting a national officer.

San Bernardino officers past responded backmost to the country to assistance with the assemblage control.

"Under the California Values Act, section instrumentality enforcement whitethorn assistance national officials erstwhile serviceman oregon nationalist information is astatine risk. In this case, national agents requested assistance during a lawful apprehension for assaulting a national serviceman erstwhile a assemblage created a imaginable serviceman information concern. This was not an immigration-related arrest, which would beryllium prohibited nether California law," the section said successful a property release.

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating the circumstances surrounding the officer-involved shooting.

According to a property merchandise from the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, the idiosyncratic who was changeable astatine had been stopped by ICE agents.

"The household is frightened, particularly fixed that their conveyance was fired upon 3 times. The idiosyncratic successful question has nary transgression record," the enactment wrote.