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The New York Police Department Hate Crime Task Force is investigating aft 2 men were caught connected camera vandalizing a Tesla Cybertruck Thursday.
A spokesperson for the NYPD told Fox News Digital the 2 men carved the connection "Nazis" and a swastika onto the doors of the Cybertruck astatine astir 1 a.m. astatine 730 Monroe Street successful Brooklyn.
They fled connected ft aft vandalizing the car and haven't been arrested, according to the NYPD.
Video provided by the NYPD from the Cybertruck's information camera shows 2 men taking turns drafting connected the Tesla vehicles.
ELON MUSK TORCHES DEMOCRATS FOR BEING 'REAL VILLAINS' OF TESLA VANDALISM, BLAMES LEFT-WING PROPAGANDA
Two radical are seen vandalizing a Tesla Cybertruck. (NYPD)
According to the New York Post, different idiosyncratic was seen carving a swastika onto a antithetic Cybertruck earlier successful March.
Ben Hamo, the Jewish proprietor of that Cybertruck, told the New York Post, "I consciousness myself burning inside."
In an interrogation with Fox News' Bret Baier, Tesla CEO Elon Musk placed blasted connected the acold near for inciting the vandalism connected Teslas.
FBI LAUNCHES TASK FORCE TO CRACK DOWN ON VIOLENT TESLA ATTACKS, MITIGATE THREATS
"They are being fed propaganda by the acold left, and they judge it," Musk said. "It's the radical pushing the propaganda that caused that feline to bash it. Those are the existent villains here.
"The existent occupation is not the people. It's not similar the brainsick feline that firebombs a Tesla dealership."
Musk said the occupation goes beyond Tesla vehicles being vandalized.
This representation released by the NYPD shows a antheral vandalizing a Tesla Cybertruck (NYPD)
"Tesla is simply a peaceful institution that has made large cars, large products. That's each it's done. It hasn't harmed anyone. And yet radical are committing violence," Musk said.
In a station Monday connected X, FBI Director Kash Patel said the unit against Tesla is home terrorism.
The FBI has been investigating the summation successful convulsive enactment toward Tesla, and implicit the past fewer days, we person taken further steps to ace down and coordinate our response.
This is home terrorism. Those liable volition beryllium pursued, caught, and brought to justice. https://t.co/U4VYh8XEve
On Monday, the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives launched a task unit focused connected the attacks connected Tesla.
The NYPD released images of 2 men scrawling the connection "Nazi" and a swastika onto a Cybertruck. (NYPD)
"As always, Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino person been adamant astir responsiveness to agents connected the crushed and providing them the resources they request to service Americans," FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson told Fox News Digital astatine the time. "This task unit is conscionable the latest determination successful coordinating our efforts to guarantee those who violently onslaught Tesla volition beryllium pursued and brought to justice."
Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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