This is what happens when you build a COVID dashboard that shows the actual Florida COVID data and is trusted by people and the media. Welcome to what DeSantis calls "winning". Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard https://www.tallahassee.com/story/n...-covid-19-dashboard-rebekah-jones/6482817002/ State police brandishing firearms raided the home of Rebekah Jones, the former Department of Health employee who built the state's much-praised COVID-19 dashboard before being fired over what she said was refusing to "manipulate data." "They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids," Jones tweeted shortly before 5 p.m. Monday. Jones 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. A video accompanying the post shows FDLE agents in vests at the front door with guns drawn, asking who else was in the house. She said her husband and two children were inside as they escorted her out of the house. The video shows an agent entering the house with his calling for her husband to come down the stairs. When an agent told her to calm down, Jones said, "He just pointed a gun at my children!" Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger sent a statement confirming the seizure of computer equipment at Jones's Tallahassee home and said agents are investigating. "FDLE began an investigation November 10, 2020 after receiving a complaint from the Department of Health regarding unauthorized access to a Department of Health messaging system which is part of an emergency alert system, to be used for emergencies only," Plessinger said. The investigation is active, she added. "As in all cases, our role is to determine the facts of what happened and a State Attorney determines whether or not charges are filed."
Honestly at this point I don't even mind the never trumper con Democratic takeover. The GOP's gone full fascist and needs to disappear.
Did Ron DeSantis really think that sending his state police to raid a home at gun point for a claim that every IT expert knows will be easily proven false by simple IP tracing & logging in a discovery process --- was a good idea? The state is going to look like fools unless they have concrete proof of their allegations. Florida police raid health department whistleblower’s house with guns drawn https://www.sun-sentinel.com/corona...0201207-rapzkgm7fnbujlhwzadunciigu-story.html State police raided the home of a former Department of Health data scientist Monday morning who is accusing Florida officials of wrongfully firing her for refusing to manipulate COVID-19 statistics. , a vocal critic of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handling of the pandemic, tweeted a video showing officers entering her home with guns drawn. “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,” she wrote. “They took evidence of corruption at the state level. They claimed it was about a security breach. This was DeSantis. He sent the gestapo.” The Florida Department of Law Enforcement served a search warrant at Jones’ Tallahassee home in connection with an investigation that started Nov. 10, Gretl Plessinger, an FDLE spokeswoman, said in a prepared statement. The Department of Health filed a complaint with FDLE regarding unauthorized access to a DOH messaging alert system used for emergencies, she said. Agents suspect someone at Jones’ home “illegally accessed the system,” Plessinger said. “Our investigation is active,” she said. “As in all cases, our role is to determine the facts of what happened, and a state attorney determines whether or not charges are filed.” On Nov. 10, someone used the Division of Emergency Management’s internal notification system to send out an alert. The alert, obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, read: “It’s time to speak up before another 17,00 people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don’t have to be a part of this. Be a hero. Speak out before it’s too late.” In an interview with the Sun Sentinel, Jones denied hacking the system . “I have never had access to that system,” she said. “I am not a hacker. I do data statistics.” Jason Mahon, a spokesman for the Department of Health, referred questions to the FDLE. A spokesman for the governor’s office could not be immediately reached for comment. Jones said she will not be deterred by the investigation, which she considers to be a politically motivated effort by the governor to silence her. “This does not shut me down,” she said. “If he didn’t learn the first time he tried to defame and threaten me that it didn’t work, he’s about to learn it now.”
Funny how you left out key pieces from the article. WTF man! Plessinger said when agents arrived, they knocked and waited 20 minutes for Jones to answer the door. "Ms. Jones refused to come to the door for 20 minutes and hung-up on agents. After several attempts and verbal notifications that law enforcement officers were there to serve a legal search warrant, Ms. Jones eventually came to the door and allowed agents to enter," Plessinger said. "Ms. Jones' family was upstairs when agents made entry into the home."
Ok that event certainly paints a pretty bad picture of the people running Florida. Disgusting abuse of authority, someone or several people need to lose their job for this. If DeSantis ordered this, he deserves jail time.
You are actually trying to make excuses for this massive abuse of authority ? For fucks sake what kind of country do you want ?