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Armed police raid home of Florida scientist fired over Covid-19 data
Rebekah Jones, the Florida data scientist embroiled in a dispute with the state's Republican governor over the handling of coronavirus figures, had her home raided on Monday by armed police who confiscated her computers.
In a stream of posts on Twitter, Jones posted a video of the raid that showed state police carrying handguns escorting her out of her Tallahassee home. She can be heard saying: "He just pointed a gun at my children," with her husband and two children apparently upstairs at the time.
Jones claimed in her tweets that the raid was the work of Ron DeSantis, the governor with whom she has clashed repeatedly since she was fired by the state's department of health in May in a row over Covid-19 data. She compared the incident to sending "the gestapo", adding: "This is what happens to scientists who do their job honestly. This is what happens to people who speak truth to power."
The Florida department of law enforcement confirmed they had entered Jones's house on a search warrant. But in a statement the department said the action was related to a recent computer hack of the health department website, in which emergency response coordinators were sent an unauthorised message.
Also at CNN, The Verge, and The Hill.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @06:33AM (4 children)
Yep, all of them! If you claim to be a conservative, now is the time to renounce the Republican Party, to denounce the criminal Donald J. Trump, and save your soul. If you cannot do that, we are going to lump you in with the Proud Boys, Oaf Keeblers, 3% Marginal humans, and the Nazi Party. Not hard to understand. The offer is clear. And the ball is in your court. Whose side are you on, America, or the crazies?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @07:16AM (1 child)
Very divisive of you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @05:17PM
Hiw so?On one side all the neo-nazi white supremacist hate filled bigots, on the other fiscally and socially conservative rational humans. Choose, Nazis or America?
The use of Nazi is a little bit hyperbolic, but since the rightwing has a fair number of assholes sporting swatikas, and olenty of Proud Boys marched with peoe carring Nazi flags, the hyperbole isn't really stretched that far.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @07:21AM (1 child)
Don't forget: Liberals get the bullet too.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @08:27AM
Liberals have the bullet, too. You do know about the "boxes", that conservatives idiots are prone to go on about? You are in the last box, the "crazy box". Good luck getting yourself out of it!