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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, we saw this yesterday while we were on
the air, and I'm fascinated by it. But the FBI
forman a task force to address these incidents targeting Tesla's
and Luke Barr, who's ABC News law enforcement reporter, joining
us now and Luke, this is pretty fascinating to me.
How the direction that this is going right as of
right now?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
And as you mentioned, the FBI established a task force
comprised of counter terrorism agents and ATF agents to investigate
sort of the the attacks behind Tesla dealerships, cars and equipment.
But you know, we found out yesterday that at a
bulletin that they sent out to a law enforcementround the
country since the.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Devices that they've been finding in the attacks that they've
been seeing are quote unquote rudimentary and require little planning.
And they say that loan offenders are the ones that
are carrying out the attacks, which make it difficult of
course to actually identify and then eventually prosc who's carrying
(01:04):
up in the text.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, especially when you know the way that they are.
I guess you could say built if you will, And
by built, I mean it's pretty simple. I think they
were citing like molotov cocktails as for instance, the what
happened in Las Vegas, and that you can't really I mean, gosh,
if you you'd have to live in a cave to
(01:26):
have not seen any of that footage over the last
few days. I mean, they're showing it. It's pretty shocking.
In addition to that, I mean there's I think gunfire
that people were shooting into that particular incident. But then
there's these one off things that like yesterday when we
were on Chuck was telling me that it a guy
in traffic, for instance, right like on the highway, or
(01:49):
it was where was that at Chuck? It was like
it was literally.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I forget where it was. I just I was watching
the video as we were in the area. He got
out of his car and started screaming at this woman's cell,
your Nazi ca are and I mean, just this this
ridiculous road rage over a tesla.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It seems like they're going to be doing a lot
of rounding up if they're trying to. You know, it's
these one off incidents kind of a thing, like those
individual type things.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I guess that's that's exactly right. And you know, the
FBI director we've been tweeted about it yesterday. I mean,
you know, he said the FBI has been invested in
the increase in violent activity towards Tesla, and over the
past few days, they've taken additional steps to crack down
and coordinate sort of that response that you're seeing, you know,
and even locally here in Washington, d C. You know,
(02:35):
the Metropolitan Police Department had put out, uh, you know,
a seeking information poster about two people who who you know,
either key or allegedly had done something to a Tesla.
So you're seeing kind of all over the country these
incidents pop up, and I guess the FBI wants to
have a coordinated front with local, state, and obviously federal
(02:57):
LA enforcement.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah. Yeah, it's uh, it's definitely interesting that they formed
this task force to address this particular these particular incidents,
but it seems like they're growing in numbers, and uh yeah,
I don't know. It remains to be seen whether it
will kind of be a deterrent for people who are
possibly planning these things or thinking of doing them, or
(03:18):
they just decide, oh, okay, now they're looking more closely
at these things, we'll just be a little more secretive
and try to try to somehow. But I also thought
was interesting too, Luke. With regard to the Tesla, there's
a mode that you can switch on, which I didn't
know until, you know, I was seeing some of the
information about this that it films all of this. There's
(03:38):
like no hidden areas with regard to for instance, like
king or whatever. You it's very very visible exactly what
happened and who did it, and the time and all
of those things. It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, they can they can put it with the calt
santory mode, which you know, you can uh what can
see kind of uh who's around the car. It alerts
you if somebody comes up to the car with motion detection. Uh,
so you know that in that regard, uh you know,
if that is the case and something does happen to
the car, so that owner could turn it over to authorities.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Very interesting. We'll be clearly following this as time goes on.
Luke Barr, ABC News Law Enforcement Reporter, Luke, thank you
very much for the latest time. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Thanks guys, good luck next week.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, thanks all right, Uh yeah, I what the heck,
what what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Holy cow?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'm trying to hang up over here.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
There's smoke coming out of I can stop it. Mark,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's like it's like the phone line that won't hang up.
I'm like trying to hang up so we don't get
you know, like while we're sitting here trying to talk.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
But I like that sound. Oh gosh, man, it turns
me on now I think about it. You know what again?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You know what is also interesting about this? I heard this.
Tell me if you've heard this, when you when you
start a fire. When a tesla catches on fire, it
is going to burn for eight hours roughly, whether you
try to put it out or not. Have you heard
that before? Because I yes, because there's so many because
of what it's made of, this is very, very kind
(05:16):
of scary to me. They say, if one of these
catches and on fire in a garage, the fire department
will tell you you're out of luck. Your house is gone. Yes,
there is no putting it out. It has to burn out.
It will not go out.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And I think that pretty much applies to all of
the fully electric vehicles.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Right is what like, you can't put it out once
it starts. Think about how long those vehicles then just
burned on that lot, and then you're thinking, how do
you get the ones near it? They're lucky they didn't
lose the whole anything.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Near And what are the hazards of the chemicals reduced
from the lithium and so forth, chemic reduced into the
air from that long burning face. It's something else.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
They say, if you're anywhere near that and you're breathing
that that it's you're going to suffer lung damage from
that what it's emitting into the air. I found that
fascinating that they literally say it's going to burn for
eight hours. And if you had one in a garage,
that's it. You're They just tell you it's it's a
(06:25):
it's a lost, that's it. Your house is gone too.
That is fascinating.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I've been saying this about the electronic cars electric car
since the beginning. Not only do you have that consideration,
the Lithian consideration, the fire departments can't. Now they're doing
like tent things because they can't put them out with
extinguishers or water. So they've got these tent things that
fire departments are going to try to use to do it.
Plus they weigh substantially more than your gas guzzler. So
(06:54):
you put a parking garage downtown full of cars that'll
go up like that, burn forever and weigh that much,
you think the structure is going to hold up. There's
a lot to be considered. This this horse, This horse
came way after the cart was out there, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, and that's the thing with these were designed with
the with the thought process of you know, how long
can we have them be a thing and be effective
as transportation and so on, without any regard for any
of these types things that are kind of rearing their
head now. So yeah, it's a It is crazy.
You know, we saw this yesterday while we were on
the air, and I'm fascinated by it. But the FBI
forman a task force to address these incidents targeting Tesla's
and Luke Barr, who's ABC News law enforcement reporter, joining
us now and Luke, this is pretty fascinating to me.
How the direction that this is going right as of
right now?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
And as you mentioned, the FBI established a task force
comprised of counter terrorism agents and ATF agents to investigate
sort of the the attacks behind Tesla dealerships, cars and equipment.
But you know, we found out yesterday that at a
bulletin that they sent out to a law enforcementround the
country since the.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Devices that they've been finding in the attacks that they've
been seeing are quote unquote rudimentary and require little planning.
And they say that loan offenders are the ones that
are carrying out the attacks, which make it difficult of
course to actually identify and then eventually prosc who's carrying
(01:04):
up in the text.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, especially when you know the way that they are.
I guess you could say built if you will, And
by built, I mean it's pretty simple. I think they
were citing like molotov cocktails as for instance, the what
happened in Las Vegas, and that you can't really I mean, gosh,
if you you'd have to live in a cave to
(01:26):
have not seen any of that footage over the last
few days. I mean, they're showing it. It's pretty shocking.
In addition to that, I mean there's I think gunfire
that people were shooting into that particular incident. But then
there's these one off things that like yesterday when we
were on Chuck was telling me that it a guy
in traffic, for instance, right like on the highway, or
(01:49):
it was where was that at Chuck? It was like
it was literally.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I forget where it was. I just I was watching
the video as we were in the area. He got
out of his car and started screaming at this woman's cell,
your Nazi ca are and I mean, just this this
ridiculous road rage over a tesla.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It seems like they're going to be doing a lot
of rounding up if they're trying to. You know, it's
these one off incidents kind of a thing, like those
individual type things.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I guess that's that's exactly right. And you know, the
FBI director we've been tweeted about it yesterday. I mean,
you know, he said the FBI has been invested in
the increase in violent activity towards Tesla, and over the
past few days, they've taken additional steps to crack down
and coordinate sort of that response that you're seeing, you know,
and even locally here in Washington, d C. You know,
(02:35):
the Metropolitan Police Department had put out, uh, you know,
a seeking information poster about two people who who you know,
either key or allegedly had done something to a Tesla.
So you're seeing kind of all over the country these
incidents pop up, and I guess the FBI wants to
have a coordinated front with local, state, and obviously federal
(02:57):
LA enforcement.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah. Yeah, it's uh, it's definitely interesting that they formed
this task force to address this particular these particular incidents,
but it seems like they're growing in numbers, and uh yeah,
I don't know. It remains to be seen whether it
will kind of be a deterrent for people who are
possibly planning these things or thinking of doing them, or
(03:18):
they just decide, oh, okay, now they're looking more closely
at these things, we'll just be a little more secretive
and try to try to somehow. But I also thought
was interesting too, Luke. With regard to the Tesla, there's
a mode that you can switch on, which I didn't
know until, you know, I was seeing some of the
information about this that it films all of this. There's
(03:38):
like no hidden areas with regard to for instance, like
king or whatever. You it's very very visible exactly what
happened and who did it, and the time and all
of those things. It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, they can they can put it with the calt
santory mode, which you know, you can uh what can
see kind of uh who's around the car. It alerts
you if somebody comes up to the car with motion detection. Uh,
so you know that in that regard, uh you know,
if that is the case and something does happen to
the car, so that owner could turn it over to authorities.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Very interesting. We'll be clearly following this as time goes on.
Luke Barr, ABC News Law Enforcement Reporter, Luke, thank you
very much for the latest time. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Thanks guys, good luck next week.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, thanks all right, Uh yeah, I what the heck,
what what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Holy cow?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'm trying to hang up over here.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
There's smoke coming out of I can stop it. Mark,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's like it's like the phone line that won't hang up.
I'm like trying to hang up so we don't get
you know, like while we're sitting here trying to talk.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
But I like that sound. Oh gosh, man, it turns
me on now I think about it. You know what again?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You know what is also interesting about this? I heard this.
Tell me if you've heard this, when you when you
start a fire. When a tesla catches on fire, it
is going to burn for eight hours roughly, whether you
try to put it out or not. Have you heard
that before? Because I yes, because there's so many because
of what it's made of, this is very, very kind
(05:16):
of scary to me. They say, if one of these
catches and on fire in a garage, the fire department
will tell you you're out of luck. Your house is gone. Yes,
there is no putting it out. It has to burn out.
It will not go out.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And I think that pretty much applies to all of
the fully electric vehicles.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Right is what like, you can't put it out once
it starts. Think about how long those vehicles then just
burned on that lot, and then you're thinking, how do
you get the ones near it? They're lucky they didn't
lose the whole anything.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Near And what are the hazards of the chemicals reduced
from the lithium and so forth, chemic reduced into the
air from that long burning face. It's something else.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
They say, if you're anywhere near that and you're breathing
that that it's you're going to suffer lung damage from
that what it's emitting into the air. I found that
fascinating that they literally say it's going to burn for
eight hours. And if you had one in a garage,
that's it. You're They just tell you it's it's a
(06:25):
it's a lost, that's it. Your house is gone too.
That is fascinating.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I've been saying this about the electronic cars electric car
since the beginning. Not only do you have that consideration,
the Lithian consideration, the fire departments can't. Now they're doing
like tent things because they can't put them out with
extinguishers or water. So they've got these tent things that
fire departments are going to try to use to do it.
Plus they weigh substantially more than your gas guzzler. So
(06:54):
you put a parking garage downtown full of cars that'll
go up like that, burn forever and weigh that much,
you think the structure is going to hold up. There's
a lot to be considered. This this horse, This horse
came way after the cart was out there, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, and that's the thing with these were designed with
the with the thought process of you know, how long
can we have them be a thing and be effective
as transportation and so on, without any regard for any
of these types things that are kind of rearing their
head now. So yeah, it's a It is crazy.
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