California Cops Present Off Absurd New Cybertruck With Music From Terminator Motion pictures

Police within the metropolis of Irvine, California, launched a brand new promotional video Tuesday to point out off their new Tesla Cybertruck. The video is each bit as cringey as you’d anticipate, however there are just a few particulars we weren’t actually anticipating. For starters, the brand new Cybertruck is barely going for use for the D.A.R.E. anti-drug program fairly than as a patrol automotive. And, maybe extra oddly, the promo video makes use of music from the Terminator film franchise.

“The Irvine Police Division (IPD) is happy to unveil what we consider is the primary police Tesla Cybertruck within the nation,” the division stated in posts to X and Facebook.

“The truck will help our Drug Abuse Resistance Training (DARE) program and neighborhood outreach efforts. Whereas the totally geared up car gained’t be used as a patrol automotive, it could reply to emergencies and help the neighborhood when wanted,” the assertion continued.

Irvine Police first introduced it was getting a Cybertruck in July, not lengthy after experiences trickled out the previous month that an organization referred to as Unplugged Efficiency in Hawthorne, California, was making a giant push to equip cops in Southern California with Tesla tech. Hawthorne is a small municipality simply south of Los Angeles the place SpaceX and Tesla have giant services.

“For over three a long time, 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. IPD believes within the continuous training of scholars and is certainly one of solely two DARE applications in your complete state,” the division stated.

D.A.R.E. was based in 1983, and although it’s not as widespread in colleges nowadays, some youngsters are nonetheless getting the identical ineffective anti-drug messaging, even supposing research present it doesn’t work.

“IPD passionately seeks distinctive and progressive methods to attach with our neighborhood and the youth of Irvine” the division stated. “Officers on horseback, working with a help K9, or driving a singular car such because the Cybertruck begin optimistic conversations and promote neighborhood interplay. We’re thrilled to introduce this car to our neighborhood and will likely be internet hosting pop-up occasions within the coming weeks so you may take images and meet our officers.”

Once more, the brand new promotional video is all set to music from Terminator, which supplies the video a really eerie feeling. They know the dangerous man within the second film is dressed up as a cop, proper? And that the flicks are literally about how cops are dangerous? Its director stated as a lot within the 2010 e-book The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron by Rebecca Keegan.

“The Terminator movies should not actually concerning the human race getting killed off by future machines,” Cameron is quoted as saying. “They’re about us dropping contact with our personal humanity and changing into machines, which permits us to kill and brutalize one another.”

“Cops consider all non-cops as lower than they’re, silly, weak, and evil,” Cameron continued. “They dehumanize the individuals they’re sworn to guard and desensitize themselves as a way to do this job.”

Questions emailed to Irvine Police concerning the division’s acquisition of the Cybertruck didn’t instantly obtain a response. Gizmodo will replace this publish if we hear again.