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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: 2) by helel on Wednesday December 09 2020, @04:58PM (3 children)
I don't know if you're aware but 1994 was more than twenty years ago. Since 2000 Bush has taken guns away, Obama returned them, and Trump took gun (accessories) away.
Politicians lie all the time. Judge them by their actions, not their words.
Republican Patriotism [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 09 2020, @06:04PM (2 children)
2020 was less than a year ago, and many of the potential D candidates were running at their mouths about gun control, as late as June, when the field started getting small.
The one thing that I credit with silencing the Dem anti-gun mob, are the gun sales statistics. Even good Democrats stood in line for the opportunity to buy their own self defense weapon. Women, Blacks, Asians, Latinos, people of all political persuasions, people of all religions, people of all colors, pretty much everyone was represented in those lines. In uncertain times, NO ONE wants gubbermint to restrict his options.
The best metric for probable private gun sales is the FBI's NICS numbers, found here:
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view [fbi.gov]
Note, that there is no reliable metric for sales. Those numbers only indicate how many background checks have been run, they do not indicate completed sales. Possible reasons for non-completion are, failed background check, customer ran short of money, customer simply changed his mind, the desired firearm was not in stock and/or never delivered, customer deceased before sale completed, customer arrested before sale completed, and the list goes on. Still, an average of more than 3 million background checks for the last 12 or 13 months is a helluva an indicator that people demand their own self defense weapons.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2020, @12:34AM (1 child)
I'm just wondering when you 2A idiots are going to finally realize that that you have been played by the gun manufacturers and the NRA. Yep, all of you 2A types are lining the pockets of the gun manufacturers each time you panic and buy yet more guns.
NB: you might want to stock up on ammo too. I gather that is getting more expensive with each passing week. Hurry before supplies run out!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 10 2020, @04:08AM
No worries. Reloads. You save your brass casing, resize it, press out and press in a primer, pour in a bit of powder, press in a bullet that you made yourself from a chunk of lead. It's all good. Brother in law probably has 50,000 rounds ready to go, mostly in 30-30, .308, and 30-06, but he keeps the nephews stocked in more modern rounds as well. When we can't find lead or powder, we'll know that the shit has hit the fan.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.