Rebekah Jones' house raided at gunpoint

large previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25339510

This is a police state, pure and simple. And I say that as a guy born in Ceausescu's Romania.

She didn't do anything except embarrass the government, so they've now invented a claim she hacked into their emergency system.

She's the scientist that was fired because her reporting included actual numbers rather than the ones invented by the governor.

Context:

"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."

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"[Jones] told CNN she had come to the conclusion that the raid had been motivated by a desire to root out her source within the state bureaucracy, which is why police took away her phone. “On my phone is every communication I have ever had with someone who works with the state who has come to me in confidence and told me things that could get them fired,” she said."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/07/florida-poli...

American gun culture has little to do with this case. Cops behave like this because behind door number one there could be a guy with an assault rifle ready to take them down. In 99% of the cases there isn't, but if you do 100 of these raids without taking risks, it becomes more likely than not that your own children will become orphans.

It's hypocritical to attack the cops that (literally) fight to stay alive without saying anything about the root cause.