California Cops Show Off Absurd New Cybertruck With Music From Terminator Movies

Police successful the metropolis of Irvine, California, released a caller promotional video Tuesday to amusement disconnected their caller Tesla Cybertruck. The video is each spot arsenic cringey arsenic you’d expect, but determination are a fewer details we weren’t truly expecting. For starters, the caller Cybertruck is lone going to beryllium utilized for the D.A.R.E. anti-drug programme alternatively than arsenic a patrol car. And, possibly much oddly, the promo video uses euphony from the Terminator movie franchise.

“The Irvine Police Department (IPD) is excited to unveil what we judge is the archetypal constabulary Tesla Cybertruck successful the nation,” the section said successful posts to X and Facebook.

“The motortruck volition enactment our Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) programme and assemblage outreach efforts. While the afloat equipped conveyance won’t beryllium utilized arsenic a patrol car, it tin respond to emergencies and assistance the assemblage erstwhile needed,” the connection continued.

Irvine Police archetypal announced it was getting a Cybertruck in July, not agelong aft reports trickled retired the previous month that a institution called Unplugged Performance successful Hawthorne, California, was making a large propulsion to equip cops successful Southern California with Tesla tech. Hawthorne is simply a tiny municipality conscionable southbound of Los Angeles wherever SpaceX and Tesla person ample facilities.

“For implicit 3 decades, our DARE officers person driven attention-grabbing and one-of-a-kind vehicles that ne'er neglect to crook heads and excite students. IPD believes successful the continual acquisition of students and is 1 of lone 2 DARE programs successful the full state,” the section said.

D.A.R.E. was founded successful 1983, and adjacent though it’s not arsenic communal successful schools these days, immoderate kids are inactive getting the aforesaid ineffective anti-drug messaging, contempt the information that studies amusement it doesn’t work.

“IPD passionately seeks unsocial and innovative ways to link with our assemblage and the younker of Irvine” the section said. “Officers connected horseback, moving with a enactment K9, oregon driving a unsocial conveyance specified arsenic the Cybertruck commencement affirmative conversations and beforehand assemblage interaction. We are thrilled to present this conveyance to our assemblage and volition beryllium hosting pop-up events successful the coming weeks truthful you tin instrumentality photos and conscionable our officers.”

Again, the caller promotional video is each acceptable to euphony from Terminator, which gives the video a precise eerie feeling. They cognize the atrocious feline successful the 2nd movie is dressed up arsenic a cop, right? And that the movies are really astir however cops are bad? Its manager said arsenic overmuch successful the 2010 publication The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron by Rebecca Keegan.

“The Terminator films are not truly astir the quality contention getting killed disconnected by aboriginal machines,” Cameron is quoted as saying. “They’re astir america losing interaction with our ain humanity and becoming machines, which allows america to termination and brutalize each other.”

“Cops deliberation of each non-cops arsenic little than they are, stupid, weak, and evil,” Cameron continued. “They dehumanize the radical they are sworn to support and desensitize themselves successful bid to bash that job.”

Questions emailed to Irvine Police astir the department’s acquisition of the Cybertruck didn’t instantly person a response. Gizmodo volition update this station if we perceive back.