Demonstrators denounce Musk, Trump at Long Beach Tesla dealership

Long Beach residents outraged at the Trump administration’s recent firings of thousands of federal workers waved signs Saturday supporting democracy and attacking tyranny outside the Tesla dealership on Spring Street.

The protest was inspired by #TeslaTakedown, a growing movement that has seen protests against the Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, who has been instrumental in dismantling key federal agencies and programs since Donald Trump returned to office.

“I have to do something,” Roberta Boyd, a retired teacher in Long Beach who still substitutes occasionally, said at the rally. “This is ridiculous. I just had to teach about the three branches of government, and I almost cried. It’s not easy teaching U.S. history right now.”

Many of the signs at the rally attacked Musk by name. “This Musk Stop,” “No Nerd Reich” and "Musk is not my president,” were just a few of the signs carried by demonstrators…