MULTIPLE incendiary devices have been uncovered at a Tesla dealership, according to police.
Police responded to the Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas, on Monday morning after receiving reports of suspicious devices at the location.
The Tesla sign at the company’s showroom in Austin, TexasGetty Images – Getty
Elon Musk speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on February 11AP:Associated Press
The word “RESIST” spray painted on the entrance of a Tesla Collision Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 18Getty Images – Getty
A Tesla Cybertruck parked in front of the company’s dealership in AustinGetty Images – Getty
The Austin Police Department’s bomb squad unit was deployed to the dealership, where they determined the devices were incendiary.
Incendiary devices are weapons or munitions designed to set fire to objects or cause burns, according to the United Nations‘ Office for Disarmament Affairs.
Authorities collected the devices without incident.
The FBI was assisting Austin police at the showroom, according to CNBC News.
At least 10 Tesla dealerships, charging stations, and facilities have been vandalized by demonstrators in recent weeks.
A growing number of videos online have also circulated of people defacing and damaging Tesla vehicles on the roads.
The attacks have come following Tesla chief executive Elon Musk‘s appointment as head of the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration.
Since his appointment, Musk has slashed federal jobs and budgets in an effort to reduce government spending and bring down the national debt.
The billionaire, 53, has blamed Democrats for the attacks on his auto company, calling the incidents “coordinated.”
“It’s really come as a quite a shock to me that there is this level of real hatred and violence from the left,” Musk told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on March 18.
“I thought the left, you know, Democrats, were supposed to be a party of empathy, the party of caring.
“And yet they’re burning down cars. They’re firebombing dealerships.
“They’re firing bullets into dealerships. They’re just smashing up Teslas.”
There has been no evidence to support Musk’s claims.
President Trump has called the destruction of Tesla property domestic terrorism and vowed to send those responsible for the attacks to El Salvador‘s terrorism confinement center, CECOT.
“I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla,” Trump said.
“Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!”
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Three people have been arrested in recent weeks in connection with the attacks on the electric vehicle company.
A man was arrested after throwing approximately eight Molotov cocktails at a Tesla showroom in Salem, Oregon, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
In South Carolina, another man was arrested after authorities said he wrote profane messages against Trump and his administration on Tesla charging stations before lighting them on fire.
And in Colorado, a woman was charged for attacking Tesla vehicles with Molotov cocktails and writing the words “Nazi cars” at a showroom in Loveland.
In early March, four Cybertrucks were set ablaze at a Tesla lot in Seattle, Washington.
Then on March 18, a row of Tesla vehicles were set on fire outside one of the company’s service centers in Las Vegas.
The words “resist” were spray painted in red across the building’s entrance.
The windows at the Tesla dealership in Oregon boarded-up after gunshots were fired at the locationAP:Associated Press
A Tesla service center in Las Vegas was targeted on March 18AP:Associated Press
A burnt-out Tesla car stands in the Steglitz district of Berlin, where anti-Musk demonstrations have spreadAP:Associated Press
A burned Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla lot in SeattleAP:Associated Press Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
