# Florida police raid home of former state Covid-19 data scientist **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 8, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-police-raid-home-of-former-state-covid-19-data-scientist/927543 "2020-12-08T05:07:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-police-raid-home-of-former-state-covid-19-data-scientist/927543/1 "2020-12-08T05:07:53Z")
This could go in the Virus forum, but it is a mite political. _The Florida Department of Law Enforcement executed a search warrant Monday morning at the home of data scientist Rebekah Jones, [who was fired](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/20/us/florida-georgia-covid-19-test-data/)by the state Department of Health in May. The agency is investigating whether Jones accessed a state government messaging system without authorization to urge employees to speak out about coronavirus deaths, according to an affidavit by an agent working on the case._ OK, they need to check up on that, i can see that. Maybe. _About 10 officers with guns drawn showed up to her Tallahassee home around 8:30 a.m., Jones said. A video taken from a camera in her house, which she posted… on social media, showed an officer pointing a gun up a stairwell as Jones told him her two children were upstairs. Jones said that the officer was pointing his gun at her 2-year-old daughter, 11-year-old son and her husband, who she said were in the stairwell, although the video doesn’t make that clear._ Why the holy fuck does a minor white collar crime need _ten_, count 'em 10, armed police? She isnt being investigated for a violent crime or anything. This is simply bullying. _Jones said she believed the raid on her home was orchestrated by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who she’s publicly accused of mishandling the pandemic._ _“This is what happens when you challenge powerful and corrupt people,” Jones said. “If he thinks this is going to scare me into silence, he’s wrong.”_ Right. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-police-raid-home-of-former-state-covid-19-data-scientist/927543)._