Hundreds of Tesla dealerships in the U.S., Canada and Europe saw protesters drop on Saturday’s lot as part of a global action day to cancel protest movements. Demonstrators have a large number of protesters in big cities including New York City and Chicago, many of which host anti-Elon Musk and anti-Trump management signs.
Accounts from all over the country continue to pour in, but despite counter-protesters in some places, the demonstrations appear to have largely no violence or arrests.
A Boston Herald account said two people were injured during a Tesla evacuation demonstration in the suburb of Boston Watertown, where a black pickup truck allegedly clamped protesters with a side mirror of a vehicle. It is reported that during the incident, there were more than 100 protesters at the scene, both of whom were hit with medical offences and were not seriously injured. Police in Columbus, Ohio were also seen accompanying two anti-Tesla protesters from Tesla dealerships during Tesla knockout.
Now: Columbus, Ohio police accompanied two anti-Tesla dinosaurs as strikers gathered outside the Tesla showroom in Columbus, Ohio. Counter protest party pic.twitter.com/OOCP5XIQXA
– ScooterCasterny (@scootercaste) March 29, 2025
In Florida, Attorney General James Uthmeier ordered law enforcement to monitor the incident and responded with a policy of zero tolerance for property crime, but local reports show dozens of protests across the state, without any incidents.
Local reports show that at least 150 people participated in Tesla’s competition in the Chicago suburbs, more than 300 appeared in protests outside Syracuse, New York, and more than 600 people participated in a suburb of Baltimore. Similar figures have been reported in St. Louis, Missouri, Buffalo, New York, Salt Lake City, Utah and other cities. Social media posts held large demonstrations in Seattle and Ann Arbor, Michigan, while there were some counter-protesters in the Meridian of New Jersey, Idaho and Params, although the pro-Muske demonstrations appeared to be much smaller than Tesla's batting.
Protesters gathered at the Tesla protest in Chicago.
“Hey, Ho, Elon Musk must go!”
Love seeing it!
– Art Candee🍿🥤 (@artcandee) March 29, 2025
This line is long and getting longer and longer!
Former and current Tesla workers and Buffalo residents who know Elon Musk’s failed policies and commitments to their losses will stand up and fight back.
Hey, hey, Ho, Ho Elon and Corporate Greed have to go! #teslatakedown pic.twitter.com/yrwwqnoqrh
— Our City Action Buffalo (@ourcityaction) March 29, 2025
Although most of the protests took place in the United States, international demonstrations were conducted as part of the day of the operation. NBC News reported protesters were at Tesla dealerships in Edinburgh, Scotland and Berlin, Germany. London also saw a large number of votes from Tesla to eliminate demonstrators.
Protesters participated in the Tesla protest in London, England today.
– Art Candee🍿🥤 (@artcandee) March 29, 2025
Organizers of Tesla's cancellation of protests have chosen Tesla as the target to damage CEO Elon Musk's bottom line, a response to his involvement in the Trump administration, including his leadership over the administration's efficiency ministry, which has led to a significant reduction in the federal workforce. A common theme in the signage is to kick Musk out of the government (or state) and demand an end to government services and social safety nets.
About 300 protesters appeared in the protests in San Diego, where there was a retail storefront in the shopping center near the University of California, San Diego. Despite being so close to the university campus, the protesters are biased by their age, which has been the demonstrations over the past two months.
Dorrie, an 83-year-old retired geologist, told Gizmodo that she also had two sisters protesting, one in Boston and one in Orange County, California, worried about what Elon Musk did in the country. “He is putting seniors on the streets. Turning older people into homeless people,” she told Gizmodo.
“I don’t know how we’re going to get rid of it either,” Dori continued. “Have you heard any creative approach of how you screwed up the system for four years and then you changed it? Everyone gets a job back, you know?”
