Why a Minnesota police chief says a female Tesla vandalism suspect won’t be charged — and even ‘may have been a victim’

In a twist amid the recent and widespread rash of attacks against Tesla vehicles, a Minnesota police chief is following his department’s “core value of being compassionate” and won’t be charging a Tesla vandalism suspect.

What’s more, Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges earlier this week declared that “the suspect in this case may have been a victim — and I mean victim in terms of the rhetoric that is being spewed out here by some of those in leadership.”

‘People should be able to drive whatever car they want without fear of going into a store and someone scratching their car, or people yelling at ’em because of the car … they choose to drive.’

A woman walked past a Tesla parked outside the Cub Foods on France

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