‘TARGETED’: Tesla owner reacts to shocking vandalism

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00:00All right, the Justice Department meanwhile announcing three people are under arrest for allegedly trying to set Tesla cars and charging stations on

00:07fire the trio facing multiple charges of

00:11arson and domestic terrorism

00:13President Trump weighing in on true social overnight posting this people that get caught sabotaging Tesla's

00:18Will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to 20 years that includes the funders

00:24We are looking for you three exclamation marks vandals have been caught defacing

00:30Destroying Tesla vehicles and inciting fears at dealerships in at least 11 states now

00:35So Sandra meet a man who found this message on the hood of his Tesla. This car supports Nazis

00:41Sean Freed owns that car and he's with me now and Sean good morning to you 42 years old

00:46You got your master's at Syracuse. You still live there. Thanks for coming on today. You have

00:52several Tesla's

00:54Describe what happened what you found on Sunday?

00:56Yeah on Sunday my wife and my mother-in-law were headed downtown to see a Broadway show

01:03When they got there, they noted that there were protesters outside of the theater and while they were in the theater this individual

01:10walked-by

01:12Wrote this message on our car and then we came back to find that after they were done

01:18Mm-hmm

01:20Can you get it off?

01:23Uh

01:24Fortunately, we were able to get it off with some rubbing alcohol and some good elbow grease

01:29Okay, was that a Sharpie or what was it? I just hard for me to that was a Sharpie. Okay

01:33Yeah, you bought your first car what seven years ago 2018?

01:38Yes, number one. Why did you do that? Why did you choose Tesla?

01:43Largely because I'm an engineer. I enjoy technology. I followed the technology for a while

01:48I also travel long distance and at the time Tesla was the only electric car that you could take long distance. Okay, so now

01:56You've bought two more since then. Is that right?

01:59That's correct. Are you having second thoughts John?

02:03No, I'm very happy with my Tesla have no plans on getting rid of them, okay, what do you think of all this?

02:10Across the country and you're one of them. Yeah

02:14Yeah, I think it's

02:15Disappointing I have no desire to be in limelight. I have no desire to be in a political, you know situation and

02:24You know regular people like myself are getting caught up in this which is

02:29Unfortunate. Okay. So here's a post from Elon. He says Tesla's ramped up security and

02:34activated sentry mode on all vehicles at stores

02:37we have seen

02:39video online of

02:41You know people key in Tesla's it's easy to do when there's so many cameras on that car

02:46Have they caught the person who's responsible in your case?

02:51Not yet, but I think I hope they do soon. Okay. Do you think they've got a good lead on that Sean?

03:00That's a good question. I'm actually gonna be following up with the authorities later today because I got a lead. Oh, how'd you do that?

03:07Somebody on X, you know went viral and somebody from London said that they recognized the jacket of the person and sent me a picture

03:14Said they go to Syracuse University. So I'm gonna follow up at the authority. Come on. Somebody from London contacted you

03:21Tell me more. Yes

03:23Yeah, I it was just a private message and they said hey, I was researching your case. I was interested and so

03:30Here's the information that I have. Hope it helps

03:32Do you think the image from this person

03:36Is legitimate is valid is possibly the person who did it I

03:43Think that it's possible

03:44I don't know definitively because as you see in the video the guy was masked and it's kind of hard to see his face

03:50But it's similar features amazing thing wearing masks, right? Yeah. Wow

03:54Yeah, here's Elon Musk the other night with Sean give this a listen. I'll ask you about it watch

04:02They basically want to kill me because I'm stopping their fraud

04:06And they want to hurt Tesla because we're stopping

04:09this this terrible waste and corruption in the government and

04:15Well, I guess they're bad people

04:18Bad people will do bad things and apparently hit a video call last night on X to all Tesla owners

04:23Did you watch that by chance because he said basically stay cool. This will pass. I

04:29I did not get to see that actually, okay might be worth checking out there. What do you think about the comments?

04:34You just heard there. I

04:36think in general I

04:38Agree, it's it's sad to me that they are attacking Tesla the company

04:45because they disagree with the

04:47Opinions of an individual and like I said the Tesla owners like myself myself have nothing to do with this

04:53Yeah, do you feel like you're targeted?

04:56I

04:58Didn't before but now I you know when you have an experience like this you start to feel like maybe you are

05:04Mm-hmm. Does it give you any hesitation to take that car out today or drive it to work or do anything this weekend?

05:10Yeah, it doesn't give me any hesitation. However, I have a family and

05:17It does give me hesitation for whether they are going to continue to be safe. I can imagine that Sean

05:23Thanks for coming on telling your story

05:26It's peculiar time you bet Sean free got his master's at Syracuse and good luck to the orange man, Sean

05:32Thanks for coming on. Nice to see you and good luck. All right, that's your family. Thank you. I'm Steve Doocy

05:36I'm Brian kill me and I'm Ainsley Earhart and click here to subscribe to the Fox News YouTube page to catch our hottest interviews

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