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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Following recent attacks connected Tesla cars and dealerships nationwide, Fresno County Supervisor, Garry Bredefeld says it is "unacceptable successful a escaped society."
In the past week, aggregate Teslas were vandalized astatine a dealership successful California. The cars were recovered with swastikas spray-painted connected them, and respective of the windows astatine the dealership were spray-painted with swastikas and profanity.
That caller incidental happened connected March 17 successful Encinitas. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department says nary suspects person been identified and nary arrests person been made yet.
The attacks connected Tesla and dealerships are aimed astatine the electrical car institution owned by Elon Musk, arsenic choler is drawn from his work with the Trump administration.
Due to incidents similar these, section officials and adjacent the Justice Department are responding to these actions.
Bredefeld says these actions are "politically driven hatred crimes that question to intimidate individuals based connected their idiosyncratic choices."
He says if radical privation to peacefully show helium supports that right.
Demonstrations against Musk and Tesla person happened nationwide, adjacent successful Fresno. More than 100 protesters gathered successful northbound Fresno connected March 15 to talk retired against Musk's engagement with Trump.
Protestors astatine that protestation said that the authorization President Trump granted Musk and said helium is simply a "threat to democracy."
Bredefeld says helium supports those who protestation peacefully but wants radical who are committing acts of unit to beryllium held accountable.
"They request to beryllium thrown successful jail. They request to beryllium made an illustration of. We should ne'er let unit to participate our governmental disagreements oregon discourse," Bredefeld said.
Bredefeld says they are ne'er going to judge unit and ne'er are going to judge radical attacking a backstage concern oregon dealership due to the fact that they disagree with the owner's politics. He says radical attacking dealerships is simply a disgrace.
"The unit against a car dealership, due to the fact that these radicals don't similar his [Musk's] authorities oregon the information that helium is trying to basal retired corruption and evil passim the government, is simply a disgrace," helium said.
Bredefeld is present calling connected each section officials- careless of enactment affiliation to articulation him successful unequivocally condemning these attacks arsenic helium says that staying soundless is being complicit.
