OAKLAND, Calif. - Members of the U.S. Coast Guard fired rubber bullets Friday at a car that was moving toward a barricade separating them from protesters outside Coast Guard Island, officials confirmed.

"Non-lethal force was used to deter a vehicle approaching the Base Alameda gate. The vehicle departed the area without further incident," the Coast Guard said in a statement.

Witnesses told KTVU that the car passed through an intersection where protesters had gathered, then drove toward a barricade outside Coast Guard Island and began circling. That’s when Coast Guard members opened fire with rubber bullets, they said.

Follows earlier U-Haul shooting outside base

The incident came one day after a separate shooting outside the base, when Coast Guard members fired at the driver of a U-H

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