A vandal dumped trash and left a brick with a swastika drawn on it atop a Tesla Cybertruck parked on a Brooklyn sidewalk in the latest swipe against the company’s controversial CEO Elon Musk, cops said Thursday.
This is the fourth time in a month that someone has vandalized a Tesla found parked on a New York City street in opposition to Musk and his role as head of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency under President Trump, NYPD officials said.
On Monday, a 38-year-old man left his Cybertruck on a sidewalk parking spot next to a pile of garbage bags outside a yeshiva on Ditmas Ave. near Ocean Parkway in Kensington at about 5:50 p.m.
A few moments later, a woman with blonde hair riding a Razor kick scooter rolled up on the Tesla, dumped one of the garbage bag’s contents onto the roof and hood of the electronic vehicle and then etched a swastika on a brick, which she placed on the car.
The woman, who was wearing a pink hooded jacket, blue jeans and black rainboots, rode off before the owner returned to the car. No arrests have been made.
The NYPD released surveillance images of the woman in the hopes someone recognizes her.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident.
Last month, on March 27, two men approached a Tesla parked on Monroe St. near Patchen Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 1 a.m. and etched the word “Nazis” and a swastika on its side, marring a 2-inch-by-2-inch section of the passenger side door.
The Tesla came equipped with a surveillance camera, which caught the vandalism, cops said.
In an unrelated incident a few hours later, in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, a 39-year-old man approached his Tesla parked near the corner of Hawthorne St. and Rogers Ave. and learned someone slapped a sticker on the driver’s side bumper.
The sticker had a swastika and the word “Musk” on it, police said.
On March 6, a masked duo spray-painted a red swastika on a Tesla Cybertruck they found parked near the corner of Rivington and Chrystie Sts. on the Lower East Side, police said.
All of these incidents are being investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force.
Anti-Trump administration protesters have zeroed in on Tesla electric vehicles since Musk began chain-sawing federal government spending and agency staffing as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
Critics quickly likened Musk to a Nazi after he was recorded giving what some considered to be a Nazi salute during an event for Trump last November.
Last month, nine people were arrested during a nonviolent “Pull the Plug on Elon Musk” protest at a Tesla dealership in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Similar protests have erupted across the country.
On the more extreme end, some Tesla vehicles and charging stations have been the target of violence and arson attacks. Pam Bondi, the U.S. attorney general, recently branded these incidents “domestic terrorism,” vowing to throw the perpetrators “behind bars.”
Anyone with information regarding these recent acts of vandalism is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
