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Florida COVID-19 data whistleblower has her home raided by state police with guns drawn (video).

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Maple

Maple

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Oct 27, 2017
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This is fucking insane.




Eight months ago, Deborah Birx of the White House Coronavirus Task Force praised Florida's COVID-19 dashboard as an example of "the kind of knowledge and power we need to put into the hands of the American people." That dashboard was built by Rebekah Jones.

But in May, Jones was fired by the Florida Department of Health for reportedly refusing to manipulate that data to justify reopening the state — and now, Florida state police have raided her home and taken the equipment she was using to maintain a new, independent COVID-19 tracker of her own.

Jones posted a series of tweets about the incident, including a video of police entering — with guns drawn.
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As the Tampa Bay Times reported last month, someone mysteriously sent an unauthorized message to the state's emergency public health and medical coordination team, reading "speak up before another 17,000 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."

According to an affidavit provided to us by the FDLE, law enforcement believes that Jones or someone at her address was the one who sent it. We're not publishing the affidavit because it contains lots of personally identifying information, but the FDLE claims the message was sent from a Comcast IP associated with her home address and email address, and the affidavit asks permission to seize and search all computer equipment police might find.
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With guns drawn, police raid home and seize computers of COVID-19 data whistleblower

Florida fired her, and now it’s raiding her home
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Tokyo_Funk

Tokyo_Funk

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Dec 10, 2018
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All this for trying to tell the truth. It seems people in power will always try to keep convenient lies/misinformation at the front of the conversation.
 
BlueTsunami

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Oct 29, 2017
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Literally a reprisal for posting info the Gov. does not want easily accessed. Holy shit. Fortunately there's video to show just how ridiculous it was barging into her residence.
 
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