DC Govt Makes It A Hate Crime To Vandalize Teslas

Politico reports:

Add Mayor Muriel Bowser’s D.C. government to the long list of blue-state entities cornered into genuflecting before Donald Trump. In the face of Republican threats to take over the self-governing capital, the city administration has spent 2025 trying to accommodate White House priorities on supposedly local policies ranging from graffiti abatement to street murals.

This week may have brought the most Trump-pleasing move yet: The vandals accused of writing anti-Elon Musk graffiti on Tesla windshields, D.C. police said, will potentially be on the hook for hate crimes.

The announcement read more like pro-Tesla White House messaging than a public-safety notice from a blue city’s police force: “The suspects wrote political hate speech onto the victims’ Tesla vehicles then fled the scene,” the police press release declared. “The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating these offenses as potentially being motivated by hate or bias.”

Read the full article. There’s even more idiocy.

Column: It’s now a hate crime to vandalize Teslas in DC – and that shows just how far the capital will go to placate the Trump administration, writes @michaelschaffer https://t.co/fzHGckqCf7

— POLITICO (@politico) March 27, 2025

Someone scrawled, “Ask me about my support of Nazis” on a Tesla. D.C. police say they are investigating it as a hate crime, instead of a misdemeanor vandalism.. So now it’s a hate crime to hate Nazis?

— Old Man Lefty (@OldManLefty1) March 27, 2025