Why people are burning Waymos

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For the past 24 hours on X, tech people, right wing figures and the media have been posting about Waymos being set on fire in downtown Los Angeles. The Waymos were burned during this weekend’s protests against ICE. I saw them burning and documented it on X and spoke to a couple people in the ground about it.