I mean if Tesla owns their charging stations and has their security cameras there then it makes sense they can access them, and it also seems not unusual to me that the CEO of a company can ask an employee to send them the security footage of one of their cameras?

I might have overlooked something but I’m struggling to see how this is different from what you’d expect. I get that this is c/Privacy and may not be what you’d want, but it seems in line with what you’d expect. The recordings are in a public place and presumably video only so I’m not sure what privacy is expected.

Definitely seems like a normal process would be for police to ask Tesla for the footage, but because a Cybertruck exploded and people just kinda accepted it as something they might do before finding it’s likely a car bomb, Musk probably wanted to try to get in front of it and likely contacted the police and offered their help to get answers quicker (and therefore help resolve the bad PR).