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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 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.