Hundreds of protesters shut down the Tesla showroom in New York City on Saturday, chanting “F–k Elon Musk” and “Elon Musk is not elected” before the NYPD arrived and began making arrests.
The group was estimated to be in the “hundreds” by the X account Plant Over Profit, who also shared video footage of the protest and officers making arrests.
“HUNDREDS of New Yorkers have swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer in Manhattan. Six have been arrested after occupying the showroom,” they wrote. “Protests are erupting across America to reject Musk’s billionaire regime. This is how we beat fascism.”
Musk accused ActBlue of organizing the protests. “An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla ‘protests’: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America,” he wrote on X.
“ActBlue funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix. ActBlue is currently under investigation for allowing foreign and illegal donations in criminal violation of campaign finance regulations. This week, 7 ActBlue senior officials resigned, including the associate general counsel.”
ActBlue is a PAC organized by the Democratic Party. It was founded in 2004 and serves as one of the party’s most important fundraising arms.
Tesla facilities and charging stations have increasingly become targets of similar actions as Musk has assumed more power in the Trump administration. As reported by the Washington Post, “more than a dozen violent or destructive acts have been directed at Tesla facilities, according to court documents, surveillance photographs, police records and local media reports” since Trump’s inauguration in January.
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