Man arrested after vandalizing Waymo vehicle in East Hollywood intersection

In the middle of a crowded East Hollywood intersection, a shirtless man walked into traffic and began destroying a Waymo autonomous vehicle — an act that was swiftly recorded by bystanders, reviewed by police, and answered with an arrest on vandalism charges. The moment, brief and visceral, crystallized something larger: the unresolved friction between a public still negotiating its relationship with autonomous technology and the quiet, steady expansion of that technology into everyday urban life. Whether born of rage, desperation, or deliberate protest, the act found its audience — and its co