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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @04:26AM (5 children)
Her main complaint was that the covid rates Florida was reporting were mixing time units. For example, the numerator would be "per day" number and the denominator would be "year to date" number. This allowed politicians to make things look worse or better that they are/were. You cant mix your units.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @04:36AM
Of course you can mix units (see miles per hour). What you can't do is leave the units out of the number.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 09 2020, @04:56AM (3 children)
You should tell that to the army. They came up with the concept of combined arms, and they mix units all the time.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by deimtee on Wednesday December 09 2020, @05:31AM (2 children)
Weren't they also the ones that came up with SNAFU and FUBAR ?
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @06:40AM
They also came up with RUNAWAY! [youtube.com] Otherwise known as, "That rabbit is dynamite!"
Or, "Really Unprepared for New Antagonistic Weapons And Yahoos", thus, we Runaway. Stolen valor? There was none to be had, originally. Hence, the Navy. Ship-hugging cowards!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @03:44PM
And, IIUC, they came up with the especially apropos 'BOHICA' too.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @06:42AM (2 children)
Was there not an earlier submission of this? Perhaps by a person non-gratia on SoylentNews? And they tyro takyon has slipped in to claim frost piste? Asking for a friend.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday December 09 2020, @07:50AM (1 child)
We don't operate a first-come, first served policy here. We use the submission that contains the most information and, where possible, is backed up by additional sources. Personally, I would have also referred to your submission if I had been processing this story, but that is a relatively trivial oversight when getting stories to the front page.
However, thank you for your submission. It was rather more politically biased than the submission than we used but not unacceptably so, and it did contain additional views that did not feature in the published story.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @08:45AM
You mean, of course, my friend's submission, right? Not to remotely suggest that there is systemic racism and misogyny and such, here on SoylentNews!!
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday December 09 2020, @06:58AM (4 children)
GOP lawyer resigns over treatment of Florida data analyst [tampabay.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @07:34AM (3 children)
No you idiot, STFU. Do not ever communicate any information about a good conservative. You're ruining your entire side's mantra that all conservatives are absolutely bad. Your post needs to be modded -2.
On a serious note, it's sad that he resigned rather than fight. Not sure his resignation will help at all, and only increases the concentration of bad actors.
I hope Jones made lots of backups / cloud copies of her data and evidence.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday December 09 2020, @08:11AM (1 child)
After 9 month of working from home, I'm all sides, babe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @08:48AM
Conservatives who resign in the face of blatant abuse of power are not "good conservatives", they are "bad Germans", "Jew sympathizers", "people who just do not like Giuliani"; it's like that. Florida Man Governator is toast. Gators gonna get him soon, methinks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @06:48PM
The only thing the good conservative could do is quit. So it's still not good news for conservatism.
(Score: 2) by leon_the_cat on Wednesday December 09 2020, @05:45PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_of_the_Unicorn#/media/File:The_Unicorn_in_Captivity_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2020, @07:22PM
Damnit! I wore out the "Delete" key on my keyboard.