Florida state police raid home of Rebekah Jones, data scientist who challenged DeSantis on coronavir

[IsItJustMe]

Source: Alexander Nazaryan, National Correspondent

Law enforcement authorities in Tallahassee, Fla., on Monday raided the home of a data scientist who had been fired by Gov. Ron DeSantis after refusing to manipulate numbers.

In the months since her firing, Rebekah Jones has continued to publish coronavirus statistics independently, while also issuing warnings on Twitter and cable news. DeSantis, meanwhile, has continued to downplay the severity of the epidemic, which has killed nearly 20,000 Floridians.

Jones posted video of the raid, which was conducted by Florida state police Monday morning. She said the police “took all my hardware and tech,” for which they obtained a warrant following a Department of Health complaint.

“They pointed a gun in my face,” Jones said in her message, which was shared by thousands of people. “They pointed guns at my kids.”

In a second message, Jones described how the state police “took my phone and the computer I use every day to post the case numbers in Florida, and school cases for the entire country.”

Jones put the blame for the raid squarely on the governor. “This was DeSantis,” she wrote. “He sent the gestapo.” The Gestapo was the secret police of Nazi Germany. DeSantis’s office did not respond to a Yahoo News request for comment....CONTINUE...

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-state-police-raid-home-of-rebekah-jones-data-scientist-who-challenged-de-santis-on-coronavirus-statistics-010351103.html
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Scary days indeed for freedom loving people!!!

[Blues Heron]

1. Scary

Mask up people, stay home, get back to lockdown or at least phase 1 as much as humanly possible. These Bastards are trying to sweep it all under the rug. They don't really care what happens to you.

[superpatriotman]

2. Nothing will happen to death sentence

Unfortunately we have no Democratic legislature or constitutional ability here in FL to hold him accountable

[marybourg]

3. Same thing happened in Putin-ville recently.