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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @07:03AM (4 children)
Yes, just one: who has all the guns?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @07:18AM
The problem with that assumption: who has all the propaganda?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @08:22AM (1 child)
Let's consider this. Liberals have more guns. Probably guns per capita. (Oh, sorry, deplorable, I used Latin! "Capita" in Latin means "head", so "per capita" means per head, or per person.) And this is the point. Paranoid Right-wing Nut-jobs probably have far more weapons and ammunition than they could ever use, whereas patriotic American liberals are not stocking up on weapons of death, because they do not have to. Superior marksmanship vastly overwhelms the Religious "spray and Pray" approach of the far right! Liberals are just better shots! So all these "2nd Amendment" types actually do not have a chance in hell. And even if they did, they would turn on each other, like assholes and fascists always do. Proud Boys? Which ones? Anti-Semitic, or Vanilla? Or Canadian?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 09 2020, @10:18PM
You should search Youtube with terms like "liberal gets a gun" and "liberal firearm training". More conservative people have their share of idiots, we can't deny that. But, watching a bunch of liberals training is like a 3-ring circus.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 09 2020, @10:15PM
Nobody has all the guns. It used to be mostly conservatives, but the past year has seen millions of people from all walks of life lining up to get a gun. Conservatives still probably outnumber liberals 3 to 1, but no one has a monopoly on guns.
And, I think that's what the Foundling Fathers had in mind. Or the Hobbit Fathers, or something like that.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.