Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard

Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by giantg2 on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:21PM (#25340356)

The article has statements from her in there. Did she deny at any point that she didn't wait 20 minutes? Seems odd that she wouldn't deny that part. But true, for all we know, none of the facts have been corroborated. To get the warrant, a judge would have to sign off on it with evidence meeting a probable cause standard. Also, this is the journalist's story, not necessarily one of either party.

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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by aspaceman on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:07PM (#25341229)

“Yes you see. It made sense for me to point a gun at a child because I was made to wait for 20 minutes”

If I was a better writer, I’d adapt these things to prose and write up some Alice in Wonderland style story. People will go to the most ludicrous lengths to defend the most incredulous actions by police. Was the kid gonna throw his Tonka truck at him?

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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by Chris2048 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:42AM (#25344397)

The officer in the video comes in with gun drawn, and points the gun upwards as he approaches the stairs.

The "point a gun at a child" part comes in that her children where upstairs, but if the cops are looking out for hidden gunmen, why would they belief what she says.

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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by giantg2 on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:25PM (#25341372)

I didn't see anything ludicrous in this article. The father was supposedly in the house too, so could be more than Tonka trucks.

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