This could force major escalation. ONE incident of someone being charged with a felony for a peaceful protests could not only stop the peaceful protests, but replace them with a far higher pace of militiant underground direct action.

Telsa attacks are already running at the rate of a new hit every 2-3 days, so say, ten times as much of that would mean nobody with a Tesla could take their car to the dealer for service and this could force Musk to either divest from Tesla and quit his CEO position or watch the company die.