There won't be a police report. Many people have investigated Elon's claims, and determined that the alleged incident could not have taken place when or where he claimed it did.
Filing a false police report is a crime. It's only a misdemeanor, but if Elon's stupid enough to go down this route a conviction for a crime of dishonesty can be used against him in court to impeach any testimony he gives until his dying days.
That they were in a recent (but not within 2 days) public report is not in compliance with the prior consent decree entered into with the SEC from his prior misleading tweets in the late summer of 2018 which required the company to institute and executives to follow a policy designed to prevent such misleading tweets in the future. The company elected to enact a policy that clearly requires any edits to previously released/approved material to be re-approved and any disclosures more than 2 days after the approval to be re-approved. It is obvious that Musk violated that policy.
You may find these antics of Elon Musk's lawyers even more interesting then, as posted a few days ago on HN, where they tried to claim (the judge wasn't having any of it) that since any video of Musk could have been deep faked that any video of him shouldn't be accepted by the court.
Because he keeps going around saying that in public, there was a recent request for a restraining order to stop him from repeating it since it poisons the jury pool. It quoted the US District Court's ruling from 1 April of this year[0]:
"the evidentiary record demonstrated that no reasonable jury could find Musk’s tweets on August 7, 2018 accurate or not misleading. Likewise, given that Musk was intimately involved with the facts leading to that conclusion, the Court also held that he recklessly made the statements with knowledge as to their falsity"
Which is to say, a federal judge has ruled that it was inaccurate, and he knows it was inaccurate.
No one wants to go to jail for Elon, who has been flagrantly violating FTC orders.[1] There's a good chance the commit history and authors may attest to that.
I understand many people dislike Musk, but this headline is just insane.
Musk's lawyers moved to dismiss the suit, as any lawyers would. He did not just ask the judge to "toss" the lawsuit.
This is a very poor display of journalistic integrity.
The fact that this civil suit wasn't settled out of court before trial is absurd. The only reasonable explanation is that Musk views the trial as pure entertainment. He loves the attention he gets from the press and the opportunity it gives him to thumb his nose at the legal system.
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