Mob Mentality Reaches a New Level of Insanity - The REAL Story with Dr. Phil

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Dr. Phil McGraw

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

From BLM Marches to Campus Protests to the Anti-Tesla Movement, how did free speech turn into a free-for-all? Shame on those leaders who try to justify and normalize vandalism and violence.

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0:00.0	Back again to talk about the real story. I've been following the attacks on Tesla dealers and
0:07.8	owners, but that's not all I'm talking about today. I'm really talking about a mob mentality.
0:14.9	Let me share some headlines with you about Tesla. Brick-wielding woman bashes Tesla in Boston.
0:22.8	Multiple cars set on fire at Tesla Service Center in Las Vegas in targeted attack.
0:28.8	Oregon man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at Tesla dealership.
0:35.4	Hapless anti-Muss activist sets himself on fire after attacking South Carolina Tesla charging
0:44.5	station.
0:45.5	FBI launches task force targeting anti-Tesla domestic terrorism.
0:53.5	Tesla attacks marked troubling twist
0:55.6	in political violence
0:57.1	as Musk divides America.
0:59.5	Sadly, this type of mob mentality
1:02.4	is nothing new.
1:04.8	Don't shoot!
1:06.7	Dispers immediately,
1:08.3	or you will be subject to arrest.
1:10.0	Do it now.
1:21.6	Get the f*** out! You have no respect for black lines. You have a . This reflects some real changes in our society that we hadn't seen for a long time.
1:26.6	First, this boldly showed up in 2014 when 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri.
1:33.3	Then, really big in 2020, when George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1:39.6	This shows violent protests, chaos, violence on the streets that we had not seen in 50 years,
1:49.0	really since the 60s and 70s.
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