LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The purported “targeted attack,” as police referred to as it, on a Tesla collision middle in Las Vegas Tuesday is one among a spate of assaults each in the USA and overseas, analysis executed by the 8 Information Now Investigators reveals.
Las Vegas police and the FBI — and their respective counterterrorism unit and Joint Terrorism Activity Pressure — are investigating a fireplace at that location within the southwest valley Monday morning that scorched a number of automobiles. The fireplace was reported Tuesday round 2:45 a.m. at 6260 West Badura Avenue close to Jones Boulevard and Heat Springs Highway.
Two Tesla Cybertrucks have been broken in a fireplace in south Kansas Metropolis late Monday evening. The Kansas Metropolis workplace of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Tuesday that it’s working with KCPD and the FBI to analyze the incident.
As of every week in the past, CBS Information reported at the least seven circumstances of vandalism involving Tesla Dealerships, charging stations, and automobiles graffitied with swastikas and Nazi references. Musk saluted the group at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration in January with a gesture that resembled the gesture Nazi troopers used as a greeting throughout World Battle II.
Different related incidents attacking Tesla properties or automobiles embody:
A handful of Tesla Cybertrucks caught fireplace in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood in a single day, inflicting important harm on March 10. The incident, CBS Information reported, comes within the wake of nationwide protests at Tesla amenities in protest of Elon Musk’s function in President Donald Trump’s Administration as the top of the Division of Authorities Effectivity.
In February, CBS Information Chicago reported a person named Ed, parked on Lakeshore Drive, discovered his blue Tesla vandalized with the white spray-painted letters “F-Elon.”
In March, in Oregon, the home windows of a dealership have been shattered by bullets.
That very same week, a Tesla charging station about an hour outdoors of Boston went up in flames.
A number of worldwide incidents have additionally been aimed toward Musk and/or Tesla. Two environmental activists poured orange liquid latex over Elon Musk’s Tesla Optimus robotic at a retailer in London on March 12, in accordance with CBS Information. These two individuals have been taken away by the authorities in handcuffs.
