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(NewsNation) — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday condemned caller arson attacks and vandalism connected Tesla property, adding the Department of Justice has already charged respective perpetrators.
"The swarm of convulsive attacks connected Tesla spot is thing abbreviated of home terrorism," Bondi said successful a statement. "We volition proceed investigations that enforce terrible consequences connected those progressive successful these attacks, including those operating down the scenes to coordinate and money these crimes."
While nary injuries person been reported, Tesla showrooms, conveyance lots, charging stations and privately owned cars person been targeted.
Tesla attacks escalate nationwide
A 26-year-old pistillate appeared successful tribunal Wednesday aft allegedly vandalizing a recently constructed Tesla work center successful Buffalo Grove, Illinois, connected March 14.
Erin L. White, 27, was taken into custody and charged with felony transgression harm to spot and transgression trespass.
She was released connected her ain recognizance, and a Cook County justice ordered her to enactment distant from Tesla properties.
In Las Vegas, respective Teslas astatine a dealership were targeted. Witnesses reported seeing idiosyncratic dressed successful achromatic mounting the electrical vehicles connected fire, and erstwhile constabulary arrived, the connection "resist" was spray-painted connected the building.
Mass protests connected the West Coast extracurricular Tesla dealerships person turned violent, with peaceful demonstrations accompanied by acts of vandalism. One dealership had to remove spray-painted swastikas and profanity from its vehicles.
In Portland, constabulary said idiosyncratic fired seven bullets into 3 Teslas astatine a dealership, portion a adjacent dealership was targeted by a hooded fig who threw Molotov cocktails astatine the EVs.
Musk: ‘They fundamentally wanna termination maine due to the fact that I’m stopping their fraud’
Activists person staged alleged Tesla Takedown protests to dependable displeasure implicit Tesla CEO Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency relation successful cutting the national workforce and canceling contracts related to humanitarian programs since President Donald Trump took office January 20.
Musk attempted to validate his efforts and said his beingness was successful information implicit his engagement successful the Trump administration.
"They fundamentally privation to termination maine due to the fact that I’m stopping their fraud," helium told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “And they privation to wounded Tesla due to the fact that we’re stopping this unspeakable discarded and corruption successful the government. And, well, I conjecture they’re atrocious people. Bad radical bash atrocious things.”
