Hundreds of protesters gathered at New York City Tesla Showroom on Saturday as part of the opposite demonstrations against Elon MuskHigh level participation with Trump Administration.
Captured pictures during protests A Manhattan dealership shows police, which removes several protesters from inside the premises, where the glass doors had been destroyed.
In the meantime, the people who gathered outside the installation could be heard: « We need clean air, not another billionaire. »
NYPD officers are protesters during the « Teslatakedown » protest against Elon Musk outside a Tesla car dealership in New York City on March 8, 2025.
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A woman, who identified himself on the camera as « Frankie » while the officers detained her, said she was « arrested today to protest against Elon Musk. »
« He bought his post, bought his way to go to a government agency, bought his power at the expense of the North -American, at the expense of our surroundings, at the expense of our world and of all the people there, » said the woman.
According to media reports, six people were arrested in total, five by disorderly behaviors and one to withstand the arrest.
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Musk was in charge of the President of the Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) Donald Trump Shortly afterwards he took office. Since then, the cost reduction body has fired more than 60,000 government employees.
People are involved in a « Teslatakedown » protest against Elon Musk, outside a Tesla car dealership in New York City on March 8, 2025.
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Another video Posted on Musk’s X Social Media Platform, on Saturday he seems to show nine NYPD officers who protect a single Cybertruck.
« New police to protect a amazing Cybertruck, » says the person who filled the video.
Saturday’s protests in Manhattan are the most recent in a series of events directed against Tesla in recent months.
In January, after a post-inacal speech where Musk made multiple Nazi movements as greetingActivist groups in the United Kingdom and Germany designed a fixed picture of the Mogul Tech Mid-Guensure billionaire next to the words « Heil Tesla » outside the company Gigafactory in Berlin.
The projection was accompanied by a social media post that explained Musk’s bonds with various right -wing activists and politicians, including the German AFD, a political party known for using Nazi images to promote racist rhetoric and anti -democratic messaging.
He also pointed out Musk’s support for the founder of the anti-muslim and anti-Semitic organization of the English Defense League, whose founder, Tommy Robinson, is currently in prison for court contempt.
Last week, fires have started fires in two separate Tesla facilities, one in the United States and one in France.
According to the United Kingdom publication, the Independent, 12 Tesla vehicles were burned down Outside a dealership in Toulouse, France, on March 5, destroying eight and severely damaged four. Since then, authorities have opened a criminal investigation.
On the same day, seven Tesla loading stations were burned in a shopping center in Littleton, Mass.
No one was injured in any of the two incidents.
Last week, Thomas Nelson, 42, Lyons, Colo, was arrested after a local dealership was vandalized.
According to police, a Molotov cocktail was found next to a car, as well as with graffiti of the word « Nazi » and several explosive devices.
Musk has not responded publicly to the growing resistance against his company.
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