【美國】吹哨者：警察用槍指着我和我的孩子！_風聞

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週一，佛羅里達州當局突襲了前州官員麗貝卡·瓊斯（Rebekah Jones）的住所，她説她今年因拒絕掩蓋該州的冠狀病毒數據而被免職。

在搜查令中，佛羅里達州執法部門的一名調查人員説，瓊斯家中的一個人正在非法使用她的電子郵件地址，該人可以訪問該州的通訊平台，並在11月10日發送了團體短信，告訴人們“在再有17,000人死亡之前大聲疾呼的時間。”

文本説，“你知道這是錯誤的。” “你不必參與其中。成為英雄。在為時已晚之前大聲説出來。”

調查人員諾埃爾·普拉茨（Noel Pratts）説，這些特工搜查了瓊斯在塔拉哈西的家，以尋找計算機硬件和電子產品。

根據授權書，州衞生部門使用ReadyOp平台進行應急管理。

瓊斯領導建立了一個公共信息門户網站，該門户網站列出了該州的冠狀病毒死亡人數和病例數。今年5月，她告訴西棕櫚灘的WPEC-TV，她退出衞生部是“非自願的”，而且是在她拒絕“手動更改數據以爭取重新開放計劃的支持”之後發生的。

衞生部沒有對瓊斯的解僱發表評論。

在週一的一條消息中，瓊斯否認發送11月10日的短信。

她説：“很確定我是否會經歷學習如何破解然後再遍歷所有地方的DOH的麻煩，我該死的肯定是正確地計算了死亡人數，”她説，並在11月10日確定了準確的死亡人數是17,460。

瓊斯星期一發布了突襲的視頻，並説州警察“用槍指着我的臉”。

她説：“他們用槍指着我的孩子們。”

佛羅里達州執法局局長裏克·斯伯林根（Rick Swearingen）説，警員“敲門並打電話給”瓊斯，但她拒絕開門就掛了電話長達20分鐘。

特工隨後在一份聲明中説：“特工隨後按照常規協議進入房屋，並繳獲了數種將進行法醫分析的設備。”

聲明補充説：“武器絕對不會對準家中任何人。”

瓊斯説，警員搜索證據是“州一級的腐敗”，並將這次突襲歸咎於州長羅恩·德桑蒂斯。

她説：“這就是誠實工作的科學家所遭遇到的事情。” “這就是對權力説真話的人所遭遇到的事情。”

Authorities in Florida on Monday raided the home of Rebekah Jones, a former state official who has said she was ousted this year for refusing to censor the state’s coronavirus data.

In a search warrant, an investigator with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said a person at Jones’ home who was using her email address illegally gained access to a state-run communications platform and sent a group text Nov. 10 telling people that it was “time to speak up before another 17,000 people are dead.”

“You know this is wrong,” the text said, according to the warrant. “You don’t have to be part of this. Be a hero. Speak out before it’s too late.”

The investigator, Noel Pratts, said the agents raided Jones’ home in Tallahassee in search of computer hardware and electronics.

According to the warrant, the state Health Department uses the platform, ReadyOp, for emergency management.

Jones led the effort to establish a public information portal that listed the numbers of coronavirus deaths and cases in the state. In May, she told WPEC-TV of West Palm Beach that her exit from the Health Department was “not voluntary” and that it happened after she refused to “manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen.”

The Health Department did not comment on Jones’ firing.

In a message Monday, Jones denied sending the Nov. 10 text.

“Pretty sure if I was gonna go through the trouble of learning how to hack, then hacking DOH of all places, I’d be damn sure to get the death count right,” she said, saying the accurate death toll on Nov. 10 was 17,460.

Jones posted video of the raid Monday and said state police “pointed a gun in my face.”

“They pointed guns at my kids,” she said.

Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen said that agents had “knocked and called” Jones, but she refused to come to the door for 20 minutes and hung up on them.

Agents then “entered the home in accordance with normal protocols and seized several devices that will be forensically analyzed,” he said in a statement.

“At no time were weapons pointed at anyone in the home,” the statement added.

Jones said the agents seized evidence of “corruption at the state level,” and she blamed the raid on Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“This is what happens to scientists who do their job honestly,” she said. “This is what happens to people who speak truth to power.”