Images of ring cameras have captured when a masked vandal threw a rock on the windshield and reduced the tires of a cybertruck in Novato, one of the last of a series of national attacks on Tesla vehicles and the second incident of this type in the small town of the bay.
The Vandal struck around 4:22 a.m. on Saturday, seeming to display the truck, which was parked in a private alley, before returning to 5:41 to organize an attack, according to the Novato police department.
The person has covered a surveillance camera with adhesive tape, but was filmed by a separate camera throwing a piece of concrete into the car several times and cutting the tires, the police said. The person left a handwritten message warning the driver to replace all the tires because the car was not sure to drive.
Video provided by the Novato Police Service
The incident was the second recent attack on a Cybertruck in Novato.
The previous Saturday, another truck was vandalized around noon in a shopping center car park, according to the Navato police sergeant. Wes Carroll. The ministry does not think that the same person is responsible for the two incidents, he said.
With the controversial rise of Elon Musk to power in the White House and the subsequent evisceration of government services, its futuristic vehicles have passed from the defenders of the left and of energy proper to become a bag of political punching and a target of violence.
In recent weeks, the cars have been set on fire with Molotov cocktails, slaughtered with rifles and degraded paint sprayed.
US Atty. General Pam Bondi called these acts of violence and vandalism “nothing less than domestic terrorism” and has threatened severe consequences.
“The Ministry of Justice has already charged several authors of this spirit, notably in cases that involve accusations of minimum five-year mandatory sentences,” she said in a statement. “We will continue surveys which impose serious consequences on the persons involved in these attacks, including those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and finance these crimes.”
Jason Bedell, who owns the Cybertruck attacked in Novato on Saturday, Ktvu’s local television station said that he thought that Vandal’s anger was poorly directed.
“All these people who have frustration against the government and Tesla and Doge withdraw it from bad people,” said Bedell at the station. “They remove it from their neighbors. They removed it from working people. Most of these people are Democrats who have even bought these EV vehicles. ”
He now offers a cash reward of $ 25,000 for information that leads to the arrest of a suspect, the station reported.
The Novato Police Service also requests public help to identify the vandals that targeted local cybertrucks and asks Bedell neighbors to check their cameras for any suspicious activity or vehicles between 4 and 6 am on Saturday.
On Monday morning, the department examined and followed the advice submitted by the public and had not yet arrested in relation to one or the other of the incidents, said the SGT. Carroll.
In the neighboring city of San José, a man was arrested on March 17 for allegedly seized a Tesla parked in a Costco lot. The mayor of San José, Matt Mahan, criticized the use of vandalism as a tool for political activism.
“If this crime was politically motivated, our residents cannot be held responsible for something that Elon Musk makes 3,000 miles away,” he said in a statement on X, urging residents to express their opinions in the polls and not in a parking lot.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations issued a warning to the so -called Tesla attackers after a man launched Molotov cocktails and pulled in a Tesla service center in Las Vegas, fireing several vehicles.
“More specifically for those who might think that something like that is justifiable or potentially even admirable, we want to let you know that it is a federal crime,” said Spencer Evans, special agent of the FBI in Las Vegas office. “We will come after you, we will find you and continue you to the most extent of the law.”
Musk, for his part, called the “crazy and deeply bad” attacks in a declaration on X. “Tesla just made electric cars and did nothing to deserve these bad attacks,” he said.
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