Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in one New York City Tesla Showroom on Saturday as part of the extensive demonstrations against Elon Muschus‘S high-ranking participation in the Trump administration.
Film material recorded while Protests In a Manhattan dealer, the police show that the police removed a number of demonstrators from the premises where glass doors were broken.
In the meantime, the people who gathered outside the facility sang: “We need clean air, no other billionaire.”
The NYPD official arrested the demonstrator during the “Teslatakedown” protest against Elon Musk in front of a Tesla car dealership in New York City on March 8, 2025.
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A woman who identified as a “Frankie” in front of the camera while the officials held her said that she was “arrested today because of protests against Elon Musk”.
“He bought himself in the office, he bought himself in the direction of a government authority, he bought his power at the expense of the American people at the expense of our environment at the expense of our world and all people,” said the woman.
A total of six people were arrested, five due to disordered behavior and one because of resistance to arrest.
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Musk was blamed by the US President for the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) Donald Trump Shortly after he took up his office. Since then, the cost reduction has released more than 60,000 government employees, with more follow.
On March 8, 2025, people take part in a “Teslatakedown” protest against Elon Musk in front of a Tesla car dealership in New York City.
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Another video Posted on Musk-Social Media platform X On Saturday seems to show nine NYPD officers that protect a single cyberruck.
“Nine policemen to protect a cyber truck, surprisingly,” says the person who films the video.
The protests on Saturday in Manhattan are the last in a row of targeted acts against Tesla in recent months.
In January after a tracking speech in which Musk made several National meadows -like movementsIn addition to the words “Heil Tesla” on the outside of the company, activist groups in Great Britain and Germany were projected with a still image of the billionaire-tech Mogul-Mid-Grübchen Gigafactory in Berlin.
The projection was accompanied by a social media post in which Musk has been outlined to several extreme activists and politicians, including Germany’s AfD, a political party that is known to use Nazi images to drive racist rhetoric and anti-democratic messaging.
Musk’s support for the founder of the right-wing extremist anti-Muslim and anti-Semite organization The English Defense League, whose founder Tommy Robinson, is currently in prison for contempt for the court.
Last week, fire materials started in two separate Tesla facilities with fires, one in the USA and one in France.
According to the British publication The Independent, 12 Tesla vehicles were set on fire Outside a dealer in Toulouse, France, on March 5, destroyed eight and harmful four. Since then, the authorities have opened a criminal investigation.
On the same day, seven Tesla charging stations were burned in a shopping center in Littleton, Massachusetts, about 60 kilometers outside of Boston, which caused severe damage and thick clouds of smoke.
Nobody was injured in both incidents.
Last week, Thomas Nelson, 42 from Lyons, Colorado, was arrested after a local dealer was destroyed.
According to the police, a Molotov cocktail and graffiti of the word “Nazi” and a series of explosive bodies were found next to a car.
Musk did not react publicly to the growing resistance to his company.
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