AUSTIN ( KXAN ) — Devices that were deemed “incendiary” by police were found at a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas, on Monday morning, the city’s police department said.
Austin police said officers responded to a call about suspicious devices at the showroom around 8 a.m. and the bomb squad was called out to investigate.
The devices were “determined to be incendiary” and were taken by police without incident, the Austin Police Department said. Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) also responded to the scene, an agency spokesperson told Nexstar’s KXAN.
Protesters gather outside Austin Tesla showroom for second week in a row
There have been numerous instances of vandalism aimed at Tesla showrooms and cars throughout the nation in the past few weeks, ranging from cars being defaced to cars or even Tesla chargers set on fire. In one instance, the Associated Press reported an Oregon man was arrested after he was accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a store in Salem. It prompted the Justice Department last week to investigate , with Attorney General Pam Bondi saying, “The swarm of violent attacks on Tesla property is nothing short of domestic terrorism.”
About a hundred protesters gathered each of the last two weekends outside the Austin showroom to voice their displeasure with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. Those protests were not violent and didn’t result in any arrests…