DeSantis sends agents to raid home of Florida data scientist who built state's COVID-19 dashboard

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DLC2558 @dianecoady 3m
WTF Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard https://tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/12/07/agents-raid-home-fired-florida-data-scientist-who-built-covid-19-dashboard-rebekah-jones/6482817002/via @tdonline

____State police brandishing firearms Monday raided the Tallahassee home of Rebekah Jones, the former Department of Health data scientist who built the state's much-praised COVID-19 dashboard before being fired over what she said was refusing to "manipulate data."

Jones — who launched her own COVID-19 dashboard after she was fired, and used crowdsourcing to raise money to support it — said the agents knocked on her door around 8:30 a.m. that morning, took all her "hardware and tech" after showing her a warrant based on a complaint filed by the Florida Department of Health.

Jones was fired for insubordination in May after being reprimanded several times, state officials said. Her paperwork doesn't state a cause for her being fired, but she claims she was terminated for refusing to manipulate health data to cast Florida in a more favorable light.

She tweeted: "They took my phone and the computer I use every day to post the case numbers in Florida, and school cases for the entire country. They took evidence of corruption at the state level. They claimed it was about a security breach. This was DeSantis. He sent the Gestapo."

read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/12/07/agents-raid-home-fired-florida-data-scientist-who-built-covid-19-dashboard-rebekah-jones/6482817002/

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Link to tweet

Rebekah Jones was fired from the Florida Dept. of Health, so she built her own COVID-19 dashboard
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/12/07/rebekah-jones-coronavirus-scientist-dashboard-ron-desantis-florida-covid-19/6483753002/

Watch the video: 'You want the children now?' Fired Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones tells police when they enter home to take hardware, tech
https://www.tallahassee.com/videos/news/local/2020/12/07/florida-data-scientist-rebekah-jones-shares-video-twitter/6483574002/

See photos of the raid:Armed FDLE agents raid the home of Rebekah Jones
https://www.tallahassee.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/12/07/rebekah-jones-florida-police-raid-home-former-data-scientist-photos/6483788002/

[WomanWhoRoars]

1. WTF?

Someone please explain this to me - I am speechless.

[Yavin4]

2. What was that about "Defunding the Police" being a terrible slogan again? n/t

[Grokenstein]

5. Ask the Republicans who are using it to scare voters.

Defunding the police is an excellent idea.

Bellowing "defund the police" when a third to a half of the nation is in the utter thrall of a conman who wants to be your dictator is the wrong way to sell it, no matter how righteous it may make you feel.

[Meowmee]

3. More nazis

And fascists... I hope she backed up her data etc. somewhere else.

[Nimble_Idea]

4. Please follow her on twitter and support her against the fascists

Link to tweet

[Grokenstein]

6. Thank you! Hope she backed-up off-site.

[sakabatou]

7. There's a reason why he's called DeSatan