Tesla charging stations were on fire on Monday near Boston. Schoten were fired at a Tesla dealer in Oregon after midnight on Thursday. Arrests were made on a non -violent protest at a Tesla dealer in Lower Manhattan on Saturday.
This week, the electric car company Tesla was increasingly in police bloters throughout the country, more than seven weeks after the second inauguration of President Trump Tesla's Chief Executive, Elon Musk, in the administration as a senior adviser of the president.
Mr. Musk, 53, draws increasing declaration for his radical cuts on federal agencies, a consequence of the newly formed cost -saving initiative that Mr Musk has labeled the Ministry of Government Efficiency.
During a demonstration on Saturday in a shiny Tesla showroom in the West Village district of Manhattan, demonstrators took part in “no one agreed to Elon Musk” and “Oligarchs Out, Democracy in”. One held a sign with the text: “Send Musk to Mars now !!” (Mr. Musk is also the owner of SpaceX.)
A few hundred protesters stayed there for two hours, the organizers said, blocking inputs and closing the dealer.
Some protesters entered the building and six were arrested, said Alice Hu, an organizer. The New York police said that five people had been called for disorderly behavior, while they were confronted with an accusation of resisting arrest.
The demonstration came at the end of a week in which employees came to work at a Tesla dealer in Tigard, Ore., Near Portland, on Thursday and found damage damage.
The police said they believed that at least seven shots had been fired, causing three cars to be damaged and damaged windows. One bullet went through a wall and in a computer monitor, the police said.
And on Monday, seven Tesla charging stations were deliberately set on fire in a shopping center outside of Boston, the police said. In another suburb of Boston, the police arrested a man on Wednesday who had tagged six Tesla vehicles with emblems from Mr. Musk in an elevated armrest.
The police in Brookline, Mass. Brought a video from the man who said he had the right to harm the cars because it was his 'free speech'. Then Mr. Musk saw the video, he replied: “The ownership of others, aka vandalism, is not a free speech!”
Tesla did not respond to a request to comment on Saturday about the protest and vandalism.
In Colorado on Thursday, federal prosecutors accused a person of malicious destruction of ownership. She is accused of spraying “Nazi” on the side of a Tesla dealer and planting a Molotov cocktail near a vehicle, according to a press release from the United States lawyer in Colorado.
At the inauguration of Mr. Trump hit Mr. Musk's right hand on his chest before he shed his arm diagonally, Palm facing down, a gesture that looked like a greeting used in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. But Mr. Musk responded in a post on X: “The attack” Everyone is Hitler “is sooo tired.”
On Tuesday in Salem, Ore., A man was arrested and accused of setting fires for a Tesla dealer and for a Tesla car in the party on the day of the inauguration, which caused at least $ 500,000 in damage, the authorities said. He was also accused of firing shots at the same dealer a month later.
The protest in the showroom in Manhattan was in one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the city. Protesters have gathered there for weeks, with the protest of every weekend larger than the previous one, according to Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, a democrat that represents the district.
He said it was “Cathartic for New Yorkers to go to the street” and that it was important for Mr. Musk and Mr Trump to “see that cutting the federal government on his knees will hurt many people.”
Tesla itself has been the subject of the recoil, where some vehicle owners now sell their cars and trucks to distance themselves from Mr. Musk and his political activities.
“I am a bit ashamed of seeing in that car now,” an owner told the New York Times before exchanging the car.
The anger against Mr. Musk also crossed borders this week.
In Berlin on Tuesday, various fires broke out on a construction site for the expansion of a Tesla factory. The police in Germany said they investigated it as a arson.
And in France a dozen Tesla cars were set on fire on Sunday evening near the southern city of Toulouse. The fire was “not at all coincidental,” said the office of the public prosecutor.
