Tesla CEO Elon Musk has almost torpedoed brands of electric vehicle manufacturers since playing a special role in the Trump administration, determined to eliminate large amounts of spending through layoffs and wholesale elimination programs or the entire agency. This has caused anger across the country, and Tesla is the first to be hit because the showrooms are present nationwide and become a simple target for people to be dissatisfied with.
But along with Pamela Bondi and Musk and President Trump, a series of sabotagers who sabotage Tesla’s showrooms and destroy vehicles have been arrested, all of whom have now shown that sabotage Tesla people will now be seen as an act of domestic terrorism. 404 Media The three were provided with paid documents outlining the ways in which the suspect was tracked. It depends on some classic investigation work and with the help of newer license plate readers and trawl digital footprints.
Take Daniel Clarke-pounder as an example, who was said to have thrown a Molotov cocktail at a Tesla charging station in South Carolina, where police were able to recover glass bottle fragments from the scene and combine them with the appearance of witnesses and search for local surveillance footsteps through the Clarke-cylindrical appearance to find a man who matched the bottle and beer bottle.
They then contacted the mall where Tesla's showroom was located and scanned the footage of Clarke-counter entering the car on his license plate. Police obtained his phone number and found the app he used, including the “mobile payment app” with his apartment payment history that led to a home address. When he was arrested, a notebook appeared with the search that read “Statements from the Ministry of Efficiency Against the Government ('Doge')” and other evidence.
Other situations are very similar, with police using surveillance cameras, license plate searches and DNA evidence to track the perpetrators. If convicted, each defendant faces at least five years in prison and up to twenty years in prison.
In today’s era, dystopian surveillance cameras are now ubiquitous, and smartphones help promote most of everyday life, it’s hard to get rid of this crime. Tesla itself is full of cameras. Musk also mobilized the White House and the Justice Department to defend the private company he runs, and is also a federal employee, so local police attach great importance to this issue.
Tesla improves safety and activated sentinel mode on all vehicles in the store
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 20, 2025
There may be better ways to show dissatisfaction with Musk’s antics—maybe laughing with every Cyber driver you pass by—and that destroying Tesla’s showroom could have the opposite effect of encouraging his loyal supporters to buy new vehicles; although it seems that Republicans still haven’t appeared in large numbers. It also provides support for surveillance agencies, which can point out that these events are the reasons why the community should cover in surveillance cameras. Tesla's toxicity among traditional electric car buyers seems to be doing enough to punish Musk.
Tesla's stock has dropped 37% in 2025 so far, with even some long-time Musk supporters calling on him to leave Doge and stop bleeding. There may be a turning point, and even Musk can no longer tolerate the losses. Or maybe he realized that his other business empires were benefiting greatly from his newly discovered power and could live with Tesla’s misery.
