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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @11:21PM (3 children)
You are lying -- they expressly denounce equality and seek to replace it with equity. These are not synonymous terms, and as used politically, "equity" is basically the antonym of equality. Equality is about giving everyone equal opportunity and not using racist criteria in allocation of resources. Equity is about taking from some and giving to others to ensure equal outcomes based solely on racist identity groupings.
Any person who describes themselves as woke and in favor of equality, either doesn't understand woke, or is cynically and treacherously blowing smoke up you ass using the slimy post-modernist trick of the definitional bait and switch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2020, @12:45AM
Feeling particularly hateful to your fellow Americans today, are we?
Good show, friend! I'd hate it if you were inconsistent.
Carry on!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2020, @05:30AM
Who, *exactly*, said such things? I want *names*. When, *exactly*, did they say such things?
I want actual published quotes. But you won't provide any because you *can't*.
You would be laughable if you weren't such a scumbag.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2020, @06:36AM
Your rage and hate are misplaced, friend.
I don't expect that you will, but perhaps you might read this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/opinion/trump-social-status-resentment.html [nytimes.com]
and think about the mechanisms discussed.
Your fellow Americans aren't you enemies. And we can make our nation better for *all* of us. But only if we work *together*.
As Benjamin Franklin put it (although I'm only being metaphorical, while he was being both literal and metaphorical):
I'd much prefer the former to the latter. How about you?