"Key details of the shooting of prominent LGBTQ+ advocate Reverend Jorge Bautista by a federal agent on October 23, 2025, are revealed in images taken by San Francisco Bay Times contributing photographer Jerome Parmer. The shooting that injured Rev. Bautista, who is the Race Equity Coordinator at the Presbytery of San Francisco, happened near the bridge that connects Oakland to Coast Guard Island in Alameda."
"Early the next day, Thursday, Rev. Bautista, Parmer, and several others gathered on Dennison Road in East Oakland for a hastily planned Sanctuary Faith Vigil. Already, caravans of masked agents had started arriving at the Coast Guard base. By 7 am, the group of protesters and participants in the vigil had grown large enough to attempt to block the bridge entrance."
"Jerome Parmer Agents at that point began deploying pepper spray and flash-bang devices, some of which are seen strewn on the ground in Parmer's images. Rev. Bautista-an advocate of the queer community who previously launched an LGBTQ+ affirming Spanish language service as part of his ministry initiatives-was among many who held aloft signs that read, in part: "No ICE or Troops in the Bay," over an image of people holding hands."
On October 23, 2025, a federal agent shot Reverend Jorge Bautista near the bridge connecting Oakland to Coast Guard Island in Alameda, wounding him. Reverend Bautista serves as Race Equity Coordinator at the Presbytery of San Francisco and had joined clergy for a peaceful Sanctuary Faith Vigil protesting a planned surge of federal immigration agents. Media reported that over 100 federal agents were dispatched to Coast Guard Island. Early that day protesters gathered on Dennison Road in East Oakland as caravans of masked agents arrived. Agents deployed pepper spray and flash-bang devices, and images show munitions on the ground. While Bautista held a sign reading "No ICE or Troops in the Bay," a federal agent stepped into the intersection, pointed a large munitions launcher at him, locked eyes, and fired, hitting Bautista.
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