The town of Irvine, California’s police division formally launched its cringy new Tesla Cybertruck on Tuesday to the general public in probably the most cringe manner potential: a dorky video that includes theme music from “The Terminator,” a franchise that famously portrays cops in a poor mild.
First noticed by Gizmodo, Irvine Police posted movies to Twitter and Fb showcasing the truck. The minute-long video is simply as sphincter clenching as you’d count on. It reveals the Cybertruck rolling out to the Terminator theme music. For some cause there’s smoke for the Cybertruck to drive by way of earlier than the truck stops and is joined by Irvine Law enforcement officials who awkwardly pose with the truck, full with cyborg-like smiles. The video ends with customized thunder and lightning graphics created for the truck that reads “Irvine Police Cybertruck.” I assume we’re all purported to go “hell yeah!” at that time.
Irvine Police are doubling down on the division’s reasoning for spending nicely over six figures on this electrical pickup. Within the video description, the division says the truck is for group engagement, particularly for officer assist with the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Training) program.
The truck will assist our Drug Abuse Resistance Training (DARE) program and group outreach efforts. Whereas the totally geared up automobile gained’t be used as a patrol automobile, it will possibly reply to emergencies and help the group when wanted. For over three many years, our DARE officers have pushed attention-grabbing and one-of-a-kind autos that by no means fail to show heads and excite college students.
Regardless of the division saying that this might be for group engagement, the truck has been divisive. Again in September, public data confirmed the division dropped over $150,000 on the electrical truck. Issues didn’t look significantly better when it was additionally revealed that the division tried to maintain the actual buy quantity secret. And never everyone seems to be shopping for the division’s reasoning that the truck is for group engagement. Some specialists consider the cash spent on the Cybertruck and its regulation enforcement modifications ought to have been truly spent on, you already know, the group.
The truck being part of the DARE program doesn’t assist issues both. As Gizmodo identified, research have proven this system doesn’t work. It additionally doesn’t look as if Irvine PD truly acquired correct licensing to make use of “The Terminator” music within the video; the division talked about in an announcement to Gizmodo that “The video was used on our socials and music credit score was given to the artist.” Between the general public backlash, this cringe video and a potential copyright violation, it appears like this Cybertruck is already turning out to be much less of a plus for the division and extra of a headache.
This story initially appeared on Jalopnik, our sister web site, on Wednesday, October 9.
