Depending on where you look, it’s a bad time to own Tesla.
While the CEO of the manufacturer of electric vehicles, Elon Musk, continues its politically divisor reduction of the federal bureaucracy, a movement of protest against the billionaire and his company is developing with members of the political left.
Tesla dealers at national level have become the site of anti-MUSC demonstrations in recent weeks, while police reports on Tesla Vandalized vehicles are increasing.
Damage range from fire to fires, scratches with raw gestures leveled on drivers. The flame return was strong enough for Washington, DC, it is now considered a crime of hatred to degrade one of Musk’s cars.
The Philadelphia region is no exception to tension, and a recent incident – in which a man in the county of Bucks would have grasped a swastika in the side of a Tesla SUV – put the local social media circles this week.
In what has become a characteristic of the polarized political climate, the online indignation cycle ended with vigilant social media identifying the suspect even before the police were deposited.
And in the case of teslas, the on -board cameras of the vehicle that record are almost constantly keyboard warriors and police with a look closely on cases of vandalism.
On Thursday, the regional regional police department of Central Bucks issued an arrest warrant against Chadd Ritenbaugh, 55, accusing him two crimes and two summary offenses to damage the goods, harassment and disorderly driving during the incident on Monday.
Images captured by Tesla’s side camera in a Planet Fitness parking lot this morning shows a man that the police said that Ritenbaugh comes out of a gray lexus, duck behind the vehicle and scratching the neighboring car with an “unknown” object before leaving the frame.
The owner of Tesla later left the gymnasium to find “what seemed to be stripes in the form of a swastika” on the side of the vehicle, according to court documents.
When he was contacted to comment, Ritenbaugh ordered the Inquier of his defense lawyer Paul Lang.
“My client is a proud father, a long -standing resident, and is currently undergoing cancer treatment,” said Lang in an SMS. “We reserve additional comments while waiting for the result of the case.”
It didn’t take long for the incident to be done in politics.
A few days before the police asked for the arrest of Ritenbaugh – identifier through security images and their membership in the physical condition of the planet – Musc fans, online magazines of Maga, even local Republican officials had taken ritenbaugh on social networks.
“As we have all seen in the news, the extreme left attacked the owners of Tesla, and we all have