On Monday, Tesla charging station set fire near Boston. After midnight Thursday, shots were opened at the Tesla dealership in Oregon. Arrest was arrested Saturday in a nonviolent protest at a Tesla dealership in Lower Manhattan.
Electric car company Tesla is increasingly finding itself in police imprints nationwide, serving as senior adviser to the president for more than seven weeks after President Trump’s second inauguration swept Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Mr. Musk, 53, is causing an increasing rebound for the federal agency’s overall cuts, as a result of the newly formed cost-cutting initiative, labeled by the Ministry of Government Efficiency.
Protesters joined the ode to “no one voted for Elon Musk” and “oligarchy, democracy” during a demonstration Saturday at a glittering Tesla showroom near the West Village of Manhattan. One person said, “Send Musk to Mars now!!” (Mr. Musk also owns SpaceX.)
Hundreds of protesters stayed there for two hours, blocking the entrance and closing the dealership, organizers said.
Organizer Alice Hu said some protesters entered the building and six were arrested. The New York Police Department said five people were called for misconduct, and one charge was against the charge of arrest.
The demonstrations were held at the end of the week, and employees at the Tesla dealership in Oregon, Oregon, near Portland went to work Thursday and found the shooting losses.
Police said they believed they fired at least seven shots, damaging three cars and broken windows. Police said a bullet passed through the wall and entered a computer monitor.
Police said on Monday, it was intentionally caught fire at a shopping mall outside Boston. In another Boston suburb, police arrested a man on Wednesday who marked six Tesla vehicles with an elevated weapon.
Police in Brooklyn, Massachusetts released a video saying he has the right to destroy the car because it was his “freedom of speech.” When Mr. Musk saw the video, he replied: “Damaging other people’s property, also known as vandals, is not freedom of speech!”
Tesla did not respond to Saturday’s request for comment on protests and vandalism.
Federal prosecutors charged a malicious vandalism in Colorado on Thursday. She was accused of spraying “Nazis” on the side of a Tesla dealership and growing Molotov cocktails near the car, according to a press release from the Colorado U.S. attorney.
At Mr. Trump’s inauguration, Mr. Musk slapped his right hand in front of his chest and then shot his arm diagonally upward, facing it, a gesture similar to Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. But Mr. Musk replied in an article on X: “Everyone is in Hitler’s attack is too tired.”
In Salem, Oregon on Tuesday, a man was arrested and charged with holding a fire in front of a Tesla dealership and opening fire on the Tesla car on the day of the inauguration, causing at least $500,000 worth of damage. A month later, he was also charged with shooting at the same dealership.
The protests at the Manhattan Showroom are one of the city’s most liberal neighborhoods. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat representing the region, said protesters had gathered for weeks, with protests each weekend larger than the previous one.
“New Yorkers are going to the streets to vent,” he said, and for Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump, “it’s important to see a knee cut that federal government hurts a lot of people.”
Tesla itself has been the subject of a rebound, and now some owners are now selling their cars and trucks, distanceing themselves from Mr. Musk and his political activities.
“I’m embarrassed right now,” a boss told The New York Times before driving.
Anger at Mr. Musk also crossed the border this week.
Several fires occurred at the construction site where the Tesla factory opened at the construction site on Tuesday in Berlin. German police said they were investigating it as a fire.
In France, twelve Tesla cars caught fire on Sunday night near the southern city of Toulouse. The prosecutor’s office said the fire was “not by chance at all.”
