Teslas Destroyed and Damaged After Attack at Las Vegas Facility
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Several cars were damaged in what police have called a 'targeted attack' at a Tesla Collision Center in Las Vegas.

Summary

A suspect vandalized and set fire to Teslas at a Las Vegas Collision Center early Tuesday in what police call a “targeted attack.”

The assailant, dressed in black, shot at five vehicles, torched two, and left an undetonated Molotov cocktail. They also spray-painted “Resist” on the building.

Authorities have not confirmed a political motive but noted Elon Musk’s ties to Trump. The FBI is investigating, warning that such acts are federal crimes.

Tesla has faced backlash amid Musk’s government role and far-right politics.

  • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    The FBI’s long-standing definition of terrorism includes property damage.

    Is blowing a railway bridge not terrorism? It’s just property. As is a water treatment plant. As is a nuclear power station.

    The path of escalation to extremism is well attested to in history. For example, in Britain, the Suffragettes began by marching. Then chaining themselves to railings and slashing paintings. Then they threatened Jewish politicians as “enemies of the state”. Then they blew up mail boxes. Then they left bombs on trains. Then they tried to blow up dams to flood cities. Then they set a crowded theatre on fire to try to kill the Prime Minister, and to blow up a mail sorting office with the 200 employees in it. Many of the leaders of the WSPU later became high-ranking members of the British fascist movement, and some were detained for attempting to assist the Third Reich in infiltrating Britain.

    The point is, where does the law step in to stop it? Since Oklahoma and certainly 9/11, the American doctrine has been to catch it early and prevent the higher cost attacks.

    And it takes one attack that crosses the line to hand Trump his Reichstag Fire moment just like Bush had.