An overview of anti Tesla events this week
Quote:Rage Against Elon Musk Turns Tesla Into a Target
During a demonstration on Saturday at a gleaming Tesla showroom in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, protesters joined in chants of “Nobody voted for Elon Musk” and “Oligarchs out, democracy in.” One held a sign saying, “Send Musk to Mars Now!!”
Several hundred protesters remained there for two hours, organizers said, blocking entrances and shutting down the dealership.
Some protesters entered the building, and six were arrested, said Alice Hu, an organizer. The New York Police Department said that five people had been issued summonses for disorderly conduct, while one faced a charge of resisting arrest.
The demonstration came at the end of a week in which employees at a Tesla dealership in Tigard, Ore., near Portland, arrived at work on Thursday and found gunshot damage.
And on Monday, seven Tesla charging stations were intentionally set on fire at a shopping center outside Boston, the police said. In another Boston suburb, the police arrested a man on Wednesday who had tagged six Tesla vehicles with decals of Mr. Musk in a raised-arm pose.
The police in Brookline, Mass. released a video of the man saying that he had the right to deface the cars because it was his “free speech.” When Mr. Musk saw the video, he responded, “Damaging the property of others, aka vandalism, is not free speech!”
In Colorado on Thursday, federal prosecutors charged a person with malicious destruction of property. She is accused of spray-painting “Nazi” onto the side of a Tesla dealership and planting a Molotov cocktail near a vehicle.
On Tuesday in Salem, Ore., a man was arrested and charged with setting fires in front of a Tesla dealership and to a Tesla car in the lot on the day of the inauguration, causing at least $500,000 worth of damage.
The protest at the showroom in Manhattan was in one of the city’s most liberal neighborhoods. Protesters have gathered there for weeks, with each weekend’s protest larger than the previous one, according to State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat who represents the district.
He said that it was “cathartic for 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 off at its knees is going to hurt a lot of people.”
The anger against Mr. Musk this week also crossed borders.
In Berlin on Tuesday, several fires broke out at a construction site for the expansion of a Tesla factory. The police in Germany said that they were investigating it as an arson.
And in France, a dozen Tesla cars were set on fire near the southern city of Toulouse on Sunday night. The blaze was “not at all accidental,” the prosecutor’s office said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/busin...alism.html
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