The Las Vegas police department and the FBI are investigating a blaze set at a Tesla showroom as potential terrorism. The FBI is probing at least three other incidents of Molotov cocktails hurled at Tesla facilities since January, including one in Kansas City that took place on the same night as the alleged arson in Nevada, the Guardian reports. In Las Vegas, in the middle of the night on Tuesday, a cluster of Tesla vehicles were set on fire as they sat in a lot at a Tesla collision center, according to Las Vegas police. Security cameras caught a person dressed in all black tossing what appeared to be Molotov cocktails into the vehicles at 2.45 a.m. “Upon arrival, officers discovered several vehicles on fire, as well as the word ‘resist’ spraypainted on the front doors of the business,” said police officer Dori Koren. “At least five Tesla vehicles were damaged, to include at least two of which were engulfed in flames.”
Police said the Las Vegas suspect also fired three rounds of ammunition into the Tesla vehicles parked at the collision center. The sheriff said the incident was a “targeted attack” against the Tesla facility and that there was no threat to the general public. Agent Spencer Evans of the FBI’s joint terrorism task force, said the Tesla fires were initially being investigated for arson, but now are being considered possible terrorism. “Was this terrorism, was it something else?” Evans said. “It certainly has some of the hallmarks that we might think – you know, the writing on the wall, the potential political agenda, there’s an act of violence. So, none of those factors are lost on us.” Elon Musk, CEO of the electric vehicle maker, called the Las Vegas Tesla fires an act of “terrorism” in a post on X. He lamented the backlash and blamed the “woke” left. “My companies make great products that people love and I’ve never physically hurt anyone. So why the hate and violence against me? Because I am a deadly threat to the woke mind parasite and the humans it controls,” he wrote. On Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi, said. “If you’re going to touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything, you better watch out because we’re going to come after you.”
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