Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek...
by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday January 17, 2021 @12:30PM
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It was a sunny morning, not the middle of the night. Obviously that's a minor detail, but it's indicative of a larger problem - there's been a big game of telephone on the actual circumstances of this raid, so your mental image of what happened may be different than what the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of7ITokML-A) shows.
Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek...
by MereInterest on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:42PM
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Good point, and thank you. The relevant pieces that I had remembered were that there was a police raid for a non-violent crime, and was emphasizing that that is not an urgent issue. It's the same way that if you see police lights pulling you over on a deserted road, you should call to verify that it is a legitimate officer.
Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek...
by stretchcat on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:12PM
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Is the timestamp on that video accurate? T13:26 sounds like the early afternoon, not even the morning let alone late at night.
Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek...
by isoskeles on Sunday January 17, 2021 @02:48PM
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T13:26:00Z
Z is for "Zulu" time zone (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9706688/what-does-the-z-...)
So hour 13:00 in Z would be 8:00 am in Florida.
So what? If somebody is knocking on my door, in the middle of the night, claiming to be a police officer, then making phone calls to verify that is 100% reasonable. If I had just been fired for politically motivated reasons, then making phone calls to alert the media when your home is being raided is 100% reasonable.
> They’ll most likely even find it boring and start skipping ahead to more knocking without a response.
Police are allowed to be bored. Police are allowed to sit outside a house and wait. It does them no harm, and does not justify them using additional force when serving the warrant.