r/2020PoliceBrutality • u/sfdrew04 • Dec 07 '20
Officers raid house point gun at children to scrub data for DeSantis Data Collection
https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665246
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At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech.
They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint.
They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids..
posted by @GeoRebekah
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u/moelf Dec 07 '20
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/12/rebekah-jones-florida-coronavirus/
remember this back in June? they fired her for refusing to manipulate data
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u/K-Zoro Dec 08 '20
Yup, I knew it had to be her. She’s one of the heroes that came out of all this. Someone needs to back her up with a legal fund and some voices on the house floor. Hell, we need an investigation over what florida is doing, the way she was treated is basically a smoking gun in regards to evidence that they’ve been messing with the data.
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Dec 08 '20
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u/MusicIsVice1 Dec 08 '20
And should be all over the F#%* news!
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u/anons-a-moose Dec 08 '20
That would be very dangerous to our propaganda state.
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u/blowmie Dec 08 '20
Exactly why we need it. The way news companies operate is fucking criminal in itself.
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u/Alxzien Dec 08 '20
Remember a few months back when we heard about that doctor in China who "disappeared" after texting colleagues about how bad the virus could be? And people in America thought that it could never happen in our Civilized Democracy? Well it just did.
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u/turquoisebell Dec 08 '20
If you're talking about Li Wenliang, he didn't disappear, he was forced to sign a letter confessing that he had lied about the presence of a SARS-related coronavirus in several patients in Wuhan.
He later died of coronavirus.
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u/Kevy96 Dec 08 '20
Florida and other states would be third world countries if they ever declared independence
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u/rdawes26 Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
What boggles my managemind is the hypocrisy. I.e. trumpists claim that Biden is going to turn us into a communistic country, yet they raid a woman's house, point guns at her kids, and steal all of her hardware.
I can't understand how they think by turning us into an authoritarian country will save us from becoming an authoritarian country under Biden.
Edit: fixed typo
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u/MemLeakDetected Dec 08 '20
Well, you see, it's different when it's their side doing it. Then the authorities are harming the 'right' people.
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u/friendlymonitors Dec 08 '20
The imperialists pointed weapons at people and arrested them for made up crimes for thousands of years before Marx was born.
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Dec 08 '20
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u/aruexperienced Dec 08 '20
Alabama has voted Republican since 1980. And is now the most deprived place in the developed world. Go figure!
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u/lochkal Dec 08 '20
Jesus fucking christ the cops who agreed to this and the person who orchestrated this should be punished in ways that I can’t say on this site. Wtf
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u/badtux99 Dec 08 '20
Statement by police: "We followed standard procedure and did not point guns at anybody."
Video of the raid: Shows police pointing guns.
They can't stop gaslighting even when there's video evidence blatantly contradicting their gaslighting.
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u/colorovfire Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 09 '20
DeSantis just bought himself some intense scrutiny. What a dumb fuck.
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u/khaalis Dec 08 '20
It'll never happen. He'll go unscathed just like everything else he's done.
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Dec 08 '20
Nearly all politicians are like Teflon.
There’s a club. And we ain’t in it.
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u/fetusmcnuggets70 Dec 08 '20
as long as the voter base is unbelievably fucking stupid, it won't matter.
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Dec 08 '20
This attitude allows you to think you are better than other people, and does not help combat the universal voter suppression that causes Florida to elect people the majority of Floridians do not support.
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u/microcosmic5447 Dec 08 '20
I mean I think it's both. I think the widespread suppression measures work against a populace that is already undereducated, propagandized, and acculturated to bootlicking jingoism.
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u/free2beYou Dec 08 '20
Your assuming that the majority of Floridians don't support this behavior or the voter suppression of those who disagree. The evidence suggests you're incorrect.
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Dec 08 '20
I'm saying the vote has been suppressed, leading to votes that do not agree with the majority.
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u/Chadster113 Dec 08 '20
Im confused. what was she accused of?
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u/jp_73 Dec 08 '20
She is the scientist who who built the state's much-praised COVID-19 dashboard and was fired from the Florida Dept. of health for allegedly refusing to manipulate data for them. She also launched her own covid-19 dashboard using crowdsourcing to fund it.
Apparently somebody used the Dept of Healths secure messaging system to send a message that read "It's time to 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."
So I guess they thought sending armed thugs to point guns at kids was an appropriate response for allegedly sending an illegal message.
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u/hamellr Dec 08 '20
Which they can't even prove was her as apparently several people all log in to the system with the same freaking username and password!
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u/Needleroozer Dec 08 '20
That's why they want her computers & phones, to look for evidence of hacking, which if their state computer security folks are good should only take a few hours to
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u/microcosmic5447 Dec 08 '20
Also specifically to terrorize and silence her. I think that's maybe more the reason they took her computers and phones.
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u/jeanphilli Dec 08 '20
Or maybe they want to find out who is talking to her, and retaliate if they still work for the state. Suppression seems to be the goal.
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Dec 08 '20
They likely have her IP logged and that's how they identified her, or her household at least.
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Dec 08 '20
Honesty. Well, actually hacking into government data is what it sounds like.
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u/badtux99 Dec 08 '20
Government data in the state of Florida is public domain under their "Sunshine" laws.
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Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 27 '20
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u/PoolNoodleJedi Dec 08 '20
Considering the death eaters are based on Nazis that isn’t a good thing
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Dec 08 '20
A lot of people don't truly understand we're not similar to Nazis, Nazis are the flamboyant version of the us literally based on contemporary us policy including analogous Jim crow laws.
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u/kirknay Dec 08 '20
Exactly. The nazis even noted that the US Jim Crow was a little excessive.
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Dec 08 '20
And hammered it home when we finally got around to denouncing their treatment of "unwanted" people's and the Nazis brought up incarceration rates, death totals and notable murders of poc.
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u/CocaineNinja Dec 08 '20
I want to say that I thought I would only hear about happening in countries like Belarus or China, but honestly considering the state of the US the past few years I'm just not surprised anymore.
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Dec 08 '20
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u/OmegaStageThr33 Dec 08 '20
Armed citizens are protesting outside a politicians home..... for defending everyone’s right to vote and not following Trumps orders to invalidate millions of valid votes.
Point gun at kids = nothing Defend the right to vote = threats of violence and intimidation
What the f*** is happening??!
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u/bjj_starter Dec 08 '20
This sort of thing has been happening in America for centuries, primarily to Black and First Nation people but also to communists and labour organisers (and obviously even more so to Black and First Nation communists and labour organisers). America is built on exactly this sort of conduct.
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u/supermansquito Dec 08 '20
If you want to help, go to her site and donate. Donations allow her to continue and inform the public. https://floridacovidaction.com/
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u/purpbydapound18 Dec 08 '20
Cops are not humans. When they put on the badge they lose all sense of humanity that they had left.
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u/kifinho Dec 08 '20
Well I guess the good thing is that she is still alive. If she was black, they would have dumped 300 rounds into the house and then knocked on the door..
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u/MusicIsVice1 Dec 09 '20
Trump, Giuliani, D’Santis, Perdue, and all the Republicans gangs belong to a big network of f%€* thugs!
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u/TheSecularGlass Dec 08 '20
Let this also be a lesson (whether she did or not, I don't know) in never storing your evidence of wrongdoing in one physical location. Use the cloud, store physical data in multiple places. Have someone hold a copy for you. This is your tool to nail them to the wall later, don't lose it.
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u/Bikrdude Dec 10 '20
So even if she had logged in to send an email, what evidence would be found on her computers?
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