There were widespread expectations that the extensive political divisions in America after Donald Trump’s president’s explosion.
But a few of them expected that the flash point would be electric cars.
Sloysls are placed with molotov cocktails, filled with bullets and deformed by the swednx. The doors and windows simultaneously are the virgin luxury electric car shows are now covered with the symbols of profanity and Nazi words.
Tslias, who was one day loved by alternative energy advocates, has now become an endless goal of political violence. Experts say that individual vehicles are unusual, activists who focus on a company on the company have a long history in America.
No one was seriously harmful to the accidents, but they led to an increase in his warning against both law enforcement officials and experts in political extremism about the place he is heading to.
“We have a series of activity, some of which are truly tolerant, such as loud and emotional protests,” said Brian Levin, Fakhri Professor at Cal State San Bernardino and an extremist expert. “But now we reach another level of this type of premeditated burning and violence, which, for sure, has a intimidation effect.”
Tesla attacks were widespread and did not seem coordinated. But the only thing that it seems to be subscribed to is the contempt of the owner of Tersa Elsa Musk and his efforts to dismiss federal workers and reduce the size of the government.
After Las Vegas was dislocated by Tilsa attacks, Spencer Evans, the Undersecretary of the FBI Special Bureau responsible for the Las Vegas office, issued a warning to potential political saboteurs.
“Specifically for those who might think something like this can be justified or likely to be impressive, we want to inform you that it is a federal crime,” he said. “We will come after you, we will find you, and we will try you to the maximum of the law. I encourage anyone who thinks about something like this to reconsider seriously.”
This is not the first time that companies or even brands of cars have been a target of political protest, and sometimes sabotage.
The protests have acquired the construction of the Dakota pipeline to reach Dakota in North Dakota for national attention and thousands of people to months for months in 2016 and 2017. This week, a jury gave more than $ 660 million to the pipelines in a lawsuit against Greenpece on the role of the environmental organization in the protests.
In 2003, activists set fire to the Chevrolet Agency and destroyed or distorted dozens of Hommers and other sports altitude vehicles, wandering in many with the word “polluted”. The Earth Liberation Front, a militant environment environment association, claimed responsibility for the attacks at that time, saying that it was aimed at obtaining the motive behind profit for the companies responsible for pollution.
It was suspected that the same group was involved in a fire that torn a building site in San Diego in the same year, according to the Times report from 2003.
“Over the past decade, militants have targeted ideological motivations from all over the spectrum, as well as some unstable and privacy species, their expanding attacks not only against traditional companies, communications, communications and academy, but also against the goals of the strong companies or the defense industry who consider their political competitors to their deputies.”
There were increasing concerns about political extremism in the United States in the Trump era, especially after the American rioters stormed the American on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to prevent Congress from ratifying the election results.
On his first day in office, President Trump gave pardon or a sweeping movement to more than 1500 people convicted of crimes on January 6. Levin said that the pardon and the efforts made by Tesla have sent a conflicting message about how to deal with the Trump administration to the targeted political violence.
“You cannot get it in both directions,” Levin said. “If the Trump administration will talk about talking, they need to walk with regard to the target violence. You can not only choose a certain ideology that you prefer when it comes to a legal response to the target violence.”
Atty. General Bam Bondi described the attacks on Tesla agents this week as “nothing less than local terrorism.”
Bondi promised to impose severe consequences on those involved in Tesla attacks, including “those who are behind the scenes to coordinate and finance these crimes.”
While local terrorism is defined in federal law, it is not an official criminal law that carries a specific penalty. Those who have been arrested in attacks have been charged so far under other federal laws that can carry a great time in prison.
Under federal laws, pernicious conspiracy and destruction carry at least five years of compulsory years in prison and a 20 -year -old legal sentence in federal prison. The number of the devastating device is not registered for up to 10 years.
Nima Al -Rahmaniya, former public prosecutor, Federal, said that the application of terrorism charges to Tesla attacks is possible, but not how terrorism charges were brought in the past.
Al -Rahbani said: “The Americans have not been accused of terrorism because it may be difficult to enter the criminal defendant’s head and prove the reason for their violent act. It is much easier if they were a member of or pledged to loyalty to a foreign terrorist organization.”
Not only are the showrooms that are alert. It is claimed that the website, Dogequest, has published the personal information of Tesla owners throughout the United States, raising privacy and safety concerns for those who own electric cars. Since then the site has been dropped.
Musk again launched its social media platform, X, and blame the attacks on the Democrats and others.
“Was there ever a level of coordinated violence against a peaceful company? I understand the unwillingness to buy a product, but this is deliberate burning and destruction!” Musk Books on X.
In San Diego, a person wearing dark clothes and a red band around his face on the Tesla showroom in Encinitas said before Monday in the morning, and the swast crossed with spraying on eight vehicles and distortions of the agency’s windows in Spain, said San Diego County Sherif Sgt. Christie Ramirez.
Ramirez said that the investigators had not made any arrests.
Several agents were distorted with Nazi symbols – a clear response to the arm of the arm gestation that was made while speaking in a gathering celebrating Trump’s inauguration in January. Musk denies that the gesture was a Nazi greeting.
In Las Vegas, the FBI and Las Vegas metro police launched an investigation this week after saboteurs cast a Molotov cocktail and launched at least three rounds in vehicles at the Tesla collision center just a few miles from the Vigas tape around 2:45 am on Tuesday.
Sherif Corin Assistant said that many of the signs were flooded in the fire and the word “resistance” was drawn with spraying on the doors of construction. One of the callers reported 911 about seeing a person wearing black clothes that set fire to several electric cars.
The authorities said that at least five vehicles of Tesla were damaged in the accident, including two fire.
The FBI, the alcohol, tobacco office, firearms and explosives are investigating a similar accident in Kansas City, Mo, where two electronic fires were placed early on Tuesday. The authorities say there is no connection with the Las Vegas attack.
There have been at least half of the scrutiny similar acts of Tesla showrooms throughout the country over the past few months.
On March 2, someone collected the phrase “no musk” in the red spray paint on the windows of Tesla Agency in Owens Mills, Maryland.
In Tigard, raw, the police achieved after someone opened fire at Tesla Agency twice within about a week. In the first incident, which occurred on March 6, at least seven rounds of which were launched – the destruction of three cars and shattering windows. I passed one bullet with a desk wall and in computer control, according to the police.
The authorities wrote in a press statement: “Fortunately, this happened overnight when the property was not busy,” the authorities wrote in a press release.
In Seattle, four electronic companies that were suspended in Tesla were supervised on March 9. In Deedham, Massachusetts, three databases were reduced on the walls and their tires were reduced on March 11.
In Lynnwood, wash. Someone, the Red Bast, spraying in the electronic inflorescences that were parked at the Tesla Center awaiting service.
Many investigations are still ongoing, but at least four people were charged after Tesla’s property was destroyed.
Adam Matthew Lansky, 41, from Salem, Oregon, was accused of illegally possessing an unregistered devastating device after the authorities said he tried to destroy a local agency with Molotov cocktails. It was also claimed that Lansky launched several rounds of a building and a car at the agency, according to court records.
In Leoveland, Colorado, two people were arrested after attacks on Tesla Agency. Cooper Joe Friedrich, 24, of Fort Collins, was accused of using a second -class burning and criminal harm, and a criminal felony attempt after the police said that a burning device had been lit and thrown into the Tesla building, and landed between two cars.
Lucy Grace Nelson, 42, from Lyon, Colorado, was accused of destroying malicious property of allegedly lighting a fire near Cyberrtruck at the agency and writing “Nazi” on the mark of the agents, according to court records.
Daniel Clark-24, from South Carolina this month, was also charged with baptism that involves property used in state trade after public prosecutors claim to spray “F-Trump” and “Ukraine for a long time” in a parking lot used for people who ship their cars.
The authorities claim that he had withdrawn five Molotov cocktails and threw them on the shells, which destroyed the devices. He faces prison for up to 20 years, if he is convicted, according to public prosecutors.
Separately from violence, peaceful demonstrators mobilized throughout the country in Tesla agents.
A group of women calls themselves the “Jeddah Brigade”, which gathered outside the Tesla showroom and the service center at Pullman Street in Costa Missa this month to speak against Musk’s participation in the federal government.
“Maybe if we retract economically, we will be able to show that the United States cannot purchase for a few million dollars from a rich man,” said Deby Marsler, a group member.
But Marseler was shocked by the sabotage that others gave to the agents.
She said: “People put the Nazi sracily on Tesla cars … It is ridiculous for me.” “Our case does not help.”