Tesla charging stations settled near Boston on Monday. The shots were shot at a Tesla dealership in Oregon after midnight on Thursday. The arrests were made in non -violent protest at a Tesla delegation in Lower Manhattan on Saturday.
Tesla electric car company has been increasingly found in police officers throughout the country this week, more than seven weeks after President Trump’s second inauguration swept the administration of Tesla, Elon Musk, in the administration as a senior adviser to the president.
Mr Musk, 53 years old, has an increasing reaction to his sweeping cuts in federal services, as a result of the recently formed cost cutting initiative, Mr Musk has highlighted the Department of Government Efficiency.
During a demonstration on Saturday at a glittering Tesla exhibition in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood, protesters joined a chant “No one voted for Elon Musk” and “Oligarchs Out, Republic”. Someone was holding a sign saying, “Send Musk to Mars now!” (Mr. Musk also holds SpaceX.)
Hundreds of protesters stayed there for two hours, the organizers said, blocking the entrances and closing the delegation.
Some protesters entered the building and six were arrested, said Alice Hu, organizer. The New York Police Department said that five people had been issued for misconduct, while one faced a charge of resisting arrest.
The show came at the end of a week during which employees at a Tesla dealership on Tigard, Ore., Near Portland, arrived at work on Thursday and found a shot from a shot.
Police said they believed that at least seven shots had been fired, destroying three cars and crushed windows. A bullet passed a wall on a computer screen, the police said.
And on Monday, seven Tesla charging stations were deliberately triggered in a mall outside Boston, police said. In another Boston suburb, police arrested a man on Wednesday, who had highlighted six Tesla vehicles with Mr Musk’s chalk in a raised arm position.
Police in Brookline, Mass. He released a man’s video saying he had the right to violate cars because it was “freedom of speech”. When Mr Musk saw the video, he replied: “The damage to others, also known as Vandalism, is not freedom of speech!”
Tesla did not respond to comments on Saturday on protest and vandalism.
In Colorado on Thursday, federal prosecutors charge a person with malicious property destruction. He is accused of “Nazi” painting on the side of a Tesla delegation and planted a Molotov cocktail near a vehicle, according to a press release by the United States lawyer in Colorado.
At the inauguration of Mr Trump, Mr Musk slapped his right hand on his chest before shooting his hand diagonally upwards, with palm trees down, a gesture that looks like a greeting used in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. But Mr Musk responded to a position in X: “Everyone is Hitler” attack is so tired. “
On Tuesday at Salem, Ore. A man was arrested and accused of setting fires in front of a Tesla dealership and a Tesla car on the game on the day of the Institutions, causing damage to at least $ 500,000, authorities said. He was also accused of firing firing in the same dealership a month later.
The protest at the Manhattan exhibition space was in one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the city. The protesters have gathered there for weeks, with a protest every weekend than the previous one, according to State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat representing the area.
He said it was “laxative for the New Yorkers to go to the streets” and that it was important for Mr Musk and Mr Trump to “see that cutting the federal government on his knees is going to hurt many people”.
Tesla herself has been the subject of the reaction, with some vehicle owners now selling their cars and trucks to distance themselves from Mr Musk and his political activities.
“I am a bit embarrassed to see it in this car now,” a New York Times owner told a car.
Anger against Mr Musk this week also crossed the border.
In Berlin on Tuesday, several fires broke out at a construction site to expand a Tesla plant. Police in Germany said they were investigating her as arson.
And in France, a dozen Tesla car were set on fire near the southern city of Toulouse on Sunday night. The fire was “at all accidental”, the prosecutor’s office said.
