Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Jewish Tesla owner demands hate crime charges after Cybertruck defaced with swastika
A Jewish Cybertruck owner says he caught an anti-Elon Musk protester defacing his vehicle with a Nazi symbol and is demanding the perpetrator be charged with a hate crime.
Avi Ben Hamo, who reportedly caught Michael Lewis, 42, drawing a swastika on his Cybertruck with the word "Elon" at the top, urged officials to press charges during "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday.
"I don't feel safe anymore in Brooklyn or in New York," Ben Hamo told Steve Doocy.
"[You're] not supposed to go ahead and do something to other people['s] car[s], and that's literally antisemitic. I think we have over here a bigger issue that in the city, the police, the DA… should charge people like this and should prosecute people like this."
"They need to pay for it. Otherwise, other people are not going to be safe, and Jewish people are not going to be safe in the city," he continued.
Lewis, who is also Jewish, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated harassment and later released, according to his attorney, Mark Luccarelli.
Ben Hamo said he approached the man when he saw him drawing an "antisemitic" symbol on his vehicle to ask him what he was doing.
"I didn't know what [was] really going on," he said. "I see this very antisemitic swastika on the car, and I didn't understand. I approached him and asked, 'What are you doing?' And he told me very, very disgusting things."
Ben Hamo said he stood in front of Lewis' car after he tried to flee the scene, but after he dialed 911 Lewis ran away.
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