It’s nice to read about them actually acting on warnings and stopping such an attack for once.
Could have hurt rich people.
There are a lot of potentially violent events that are quietly prevented every day that most people don’t hear about.
“mass casualty event” at Tesla headquarters in Texas during a Cybertruck promotion attended by Elon Musk, prosecutors said.
The suspect also appeared to object to technology in modern life.
“I wanna die. My thoughts haven’t been free for over a year. All the electronics around me,” he wrote, according to the arrest warrant.
Last part sounds like schizophrenia.
Similar to Ted Kaczynski.
Ted was not a good dude but he was right. We’re all slaves to technology now.
To the extent that it’s true, it has been true since the invention of agriculture. Maybe even pointy sticks. People with technology force everyone around them to adopt similar technology, either to resist them or to comply with their demands.
Kaczynski was intelligent. This guy is obviously a moron.
Schizophrenia doesn’t care how smart you are.
The sixth G is Gun.
It doesn’t sound like he wanted to hurt Elon specifically and wanted to be stopped.
The event was attended by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, though he was not named as a specific target in the arrest warrant.
“But yeah so at teh (sic) Tesla event I’m planning to attach (sic) so up to you guys to stop me,” “I plan on killing people at that even (sic) ok (sic) November 30th and I would like you do something about it so I don’t have to” and “I wanna die.”
Sounds like he’s deeply unwell. Fingers crossed the judicial system actually manages to help him, though I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Dont you, like, have to pay MONEY to get helped? Is the US just gonna start “helping” folks with no expectation of exploitative profit? Does the criminal justice system at that level actually do any benefit to those captive, and do they receive REAL not insane therapy that isn’t just a giant tough love seminar they bill for?
Prisoners do not get billed for medical treatment.
They still have to be in US prison however.
Exactly. In concept, a judge can order psychological treatment, which should come from trained medical professionals. In practice, the US carceral state doesn’t have a good track record of improving the lives of people who fall into its grasp.
The for-profit prisons still bill gov’ts for treatment, and there are cap limits set.
Yeah, he traveled to Austin but police aren’t saying whether he had any weapons… At this point it sounds like he may have been attempting to provoke a “suicide by cop” scenario. But there’s not enough information to say that for sure. I’m just glad they caught the guy before he had the chance to carry out whatever he was actually there to do.
It doesn’t sound like he wanted to hurt Elon specifically
That’s too ba- I mean thank god this man was caught!
Sounds like a plan to commit suicide by cop.
From BlueSky: “He planned to drive one off the lot.”
Elon’s conspiracy bullshit coming home to roost.
Will not be convicted but will be committed.
