CBP officer's personal vehicle struck LA protester outside federal detention center; no police report filed

On March 13, 2026, around 10 p.m., a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer driving his personal vehicle struck protester Jasmin Alyssa Quan-Martinez as he drove away from the federal detention complex on Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles, near the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building, where demonstrators had gathered against federal immigration enforcement. Video captured by bystanders and broadcast by CBS News Los Angeles and ABC7 shows the vehicle making contact with Quan-Martinez twice, carrying her briefly on its hood, before she was thrown to the curb; she got up and walked back toward other demonstrators and was later evaluated at a hospital for minor injuries.

The Department of Homeland Security said the officer was leaving work when roughly ten protesters surrounded his car, banged on the windows, and threw an object at it hard enough that he believed they were trying to break in; DHS said he tried to "quickly exit the dangerous situation" and that a single "rioter jumped onto the hood of the moving vehicle and quickly jumped off" uninjured, adding that "rioting is dangerous" and that assaulting law enforcement is a federal felony. Quan-Martinez told CBS she was walking on a public sidewalk and could not react fast enough to move out of the vehicle's path.

No police report was filed over the incident, and in the days after, no arrests or charges had been announced by federal or local authorities. The Roybal Federal Building and the adjacent detention complex have been a recurring flashpoint for anti-ICE demonstrations, including an earlier February 8, 2026 incident in which a vehicle struck a demonstrator in the same corridor.