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A self-proclaimed Trump supporter was arrested at a Tesla protest in California after he tried to make use of a taser in opposition to peaceable protestors.
The ‘Tesla Takedown’ motion to prepare peaceable protests in opposition to Elon Musk at Tesla shops throughout the US has been ramping up in current weeks.
On Saturday, there was a major protest at Tesla’s retailer in Berkeley, the place protestors have often demonstrated during the last month.
Rick Fuze, 33, of Berkeley, who owns an e-bike restore store, has been identified to point out as much as counter-protest on the location over the previous couple of weeks, in line with a report from native information website Berkeley Aspect.
He did it once more this Saturday and bought right into a confrontation with a few Tesla protestors. It escalated when Fuze pulled out a taser gun and fired it within the route of the 2 protestors.
Fuze was shortly arrested by law enforcement officials who had been already on the scene monitoring the big protest.
He claimed that he used the taser in self-defense as a result of somebody pulled his hair, however somebody caught the whole interplay on video, and it’s clear {that a} lady pulled on his hair to get him off his bike after Fuze had already fired the taser twice and tried to flee:
That is the most recent in a sequence of examples of each side going too far amid the politicization of Tesla.
As we beforehand reported, whereas most demonstrations in opposition to Elon Musk at Tesla are peaceable protests, there have been a number of cases of vandalism in opposition to Tesla properties.
However, we additionally noticed a truck driver rolling coal on Tesla protestors at one other location final week.
Electrek’s Take
That is getting insane. It’s easy: violence and vandalism are unhealthy, and peaceable protests are good and guarded below the US Structure.
I’m wondering when this may finish.
Tesla protests are supposedly ramping up within the subsequent week. I’m wondering if Tesla experiences horrible deliveries subsequent week, which is partly due to demand points and partly due to Mannequin Y changeover, they’ll declare victory and cease or that is going to proceed till Musk is out of Tesla.
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