Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in an exhibition hall in Tesla in New York on Saturday as part of sprawling demonstrations against the high level participation of Elon Musk in the Trump administration.
Captured images During demonstrations at a Manhattan dealer shows that the police removed a number of demonstrators from the interior of the premises, where glass doors had been broken.
Meanwhile, people gathered outside the establishment could be heard to sing: “We need clean air, not another billionaire.”
NYPD officers arrest the demonstrators during the “Teslatakedown” protest against Elon Musk in front of a Tesla car dealer in New York on March 8, 2025.
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A woman, who identified the camera as “Frankie” while the police arrested her, said that she “was arrested today for protesting against Elon Musk”.
“He bought his way at the office, he bought his way in the direction of a government agency, he bought his power at the expense of the American people, to the detriment of our environment, to the detriment of our world and all people,” said the woman.
Six people were arrested in total, five for disorderly driving and one for resistance to arrest, according to the media.
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Musk was responsible for the Ministry of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) by US President Donald Trump shortly after taking office. Since then, the cost reduction organization has dismissed more than 60,000 government employees, with more follow -up.
People participate in a “Teslatakedown” demonstration against Elon Musk in front of a Tesla car dealer in New York on March 8, 2025.
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Another video Posted on the social media platform belonging to Musk on Saturday seems to show nine NYPD officers protecting a single Cybertruck.
“Nine cops to protect an incredible cybertruck,” says the person who films the video.
The demonstrations on Saturday in Manhattan are the last people in a series of targeted acts against Tesla in recent months.
In January, following a post-infant speech where Musk produced several Nazi salvation movements, the groups of activists based in the United Kingdom and Germany projected a motionless image of the Millionaire Technology Magnat in the middle of the words “Heil Tesla” outside the Gigafactory of the Society in Berlin.
The projection was accompanied by a publication on social networks describing Musk’s ties with several extreme rights activists and politicians, notably German AFD, a political party known to use Nazi imagery to push racist rhetoric and antimocratic messaging.
He also noted the support of Musk to the founder of the far-right anti-muslim and anti-Semitic organization, the English Defense League, whose founder Tommy Robinson is currently in prison for the court.
Last week, the arsonists began to fire in two separate facilities in Tesla, one in the United States and one in France.
According to the British publication The Independent, 12 Tesla vehicles were set on fire Apart from a dealer in Toulouse, France, March 5, destroying eight and seriously damaging four. Authorities have since opened a criminal investigation.
On the same day, seven Tesla load terminals in a shopping center in Littleton, in the Mass., About 60 kilometers outside Boston, were burned, causing heavy damage and sending thick smoke plumes.
No one was injured in any of the incidents.
Last week, Thomas Nelson, 42 years old from Lyon, Colorado, was arrested after a local dealer was vandalized.
According to the police, a Molotov cocktail was found next to a car, as well as the graffiti of the word “Nazi” and a certain number of explosive devices.
Musk did not publicly respond to the growing resistance against his business.
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