Two activists in Manhattan wound up in handcuffs Tuesday after they vandalized a Tesla dealership as a part of an specific Earth Day protest towards the corporate’s founder, billionaire-turned-“government efficiency” official Elon Musk.
Picture by Dean Moses
Two activists in Manhattan wound up in handcuffs Tuesday after they vandalized a Tesla dealership as a part of an specific Earth Day protest towards the corporate’s founder, billionaire-turned-“government efficiency” official Elon Musk.
Activists from Extinction Insurrection NYC carried out a shock protest towards Musk outdoors the Tesla store, 860 Washington St. in Soho, simply after midday on April 22.
Demonstrators took spray cans and commenced spraying anti-Musk messages over the home windows of the dealership, writing “DOGE” with a cross by it, “F**k Elon,” and “we do not consent.” Potential consumers and bystanders appeared on with mouths agape because the demonstrators scrawled their messages in inexperienced and crimson spray paint.
The vandalism sought to make a press release towards Musk, who President Trump appointed as chief of the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) to slash funding and staffing deemed wasteful at quite a few authorities businesses. The demonstrators imagine Musk has a seemingly unfiltered position in authorities with out having been duly elected or vetted by a standard advice-and-consent course of like conventional cupboard members.
Activists from Extinction Insurrection NYC carried out a shock protest towards Musk outdoors the Tesla store, 860 Washington St. in Soho, simply after midday on April 22.Picture by Dean Moses 
Demonstrators took spray cans and commenced spraying anti-Musk messages over the home windows of the dealership, writing “DOGE” with a cross by it, “F**k Elon,” and “we do not consent.”Picture by Dean Moses
Cops then moved to apprehend one other vandal, who confirmed his paint-covered fingers to police, saying tongue-in-cheek, “You caught me red-handed.”
Protesters appeared to have the final giggle, nonetheless, revealing that they used non-destructive paint that could possibly be simply washed away.
Picture by Dean Moses 
Officers from the sixth Precinct raced to the scene, yanking a sprig paint can out of 1 vandal’s hand and instantly cuffing him. “Planet over profits,” the protester stated as he was taken away in cuffs.Picture by Dean Moses
Extinction Insurrection, a worldwide environmental motion, stated the vandalism was a crucial act to ship a robust message to the Trump administration.
“As democratic rights get eroded, the time for niceties is long since past. Mass marches will not save us. Trump knows this. Trump counts on this. We have been unable to stop him from tearing our institutions apart, just as we have been helpless to avoid the climate breakdown, as the world dies around us,” Extinction Insurrection stated in a press release. “The social contract between the government and its citizens is broken. We refuse to be bystanders like the Democrats, we refuse to wait for this emergency to proceed beyond the point of no return.”
