Law enforcement sources confirmed to local news outlets that the electric vehicle was rented from Turo, the vehicle-sharing service that was also used in the New Orleans attack on the same day. There, suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar used the Turo app to rent an electric Ford pickup truck used in that attack in the early hours of New Year’s Day, which killed 15 and injured dozens more.
There is some fucking hamfisted “the ford electric truck killed all these people” “the cybertruck saved everyone” “the brown dude was an evil terrorist” “forget about shooting CEOs” messaging being hammered into the collective subconscious. Hypernormalization marches on.
We’re gonna find out motor companies are actually radicalizing people to carry out terror attacks using their competitor’s vehicle for the sole purpose of smearing it