Posted on 04/07/2023 8:09:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
"Fact check: He threatened to shoot up his middle school and stab classmates who angered him," tweeted Christina Pushaw
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On Thursday, the Miami Herald published a misleading claim about the recent arrest of the 13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones, the disgraced "whistleblower" who claimed the Florida Department of Health pressured her to manipulate Covid data to the benefit of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and the outlet said that the child was arrested over "memes" when he was arrested for threatening to shoot up his school, Holley Navarre Middle School.
According to Yahoo News, the boy was arrested for "digital threats of terrorism" and the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office alleges that he made several threats to shoot and stab several students at his school and made statements such as "I want to shoot up the school" and "I’m getting a wrath and natural selection shirt so maybe but I don’t think many ppl know what the columbine shooters look like."
"Okay so it’s been like 3-4 weeks since I got on my new antidepressants and they aren’t working but they’re suppose to by now so I have no hope in getting better so why not kill the losers at school," was another threat the boy allegedly made.
According to the Miami Herald, her "son was arrested by sheriff’s deputies after sharing Internet memes in a private chat with school friends."
Christina Pushaw tweeted a fact check after the Herald published the false meme headline.
Pushaw tweeted out the headline from the Herald, which originally read: "13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones, whistleblower who clashed with DeSantis, arrested over memes." That headline has since been changed to read: "Son of Rebekah Jones, Florida whistleblower, arrested in probe of threatening Internet posts." Twitter owner Elon Musk followed up and said his Community Notes feature will correct the Herald's misinformation.
In their article, the Herald made no mention of the boy's alleged threats but sourced a series of tweets by Jones, a former Florida Department of Health dashboard manager and who the New York Post described as a "fake whistleblower who peddled lies about Florida’s Covid deaths."
Jones first teased the "breaking" story about her son on Wednesday but said she needed the "Trump indictment fever" to die down.
On Thursday she tweeted, "Today's events will tell a story so enraging, heartbreaking and brutal that I'm sure when I'm ready to tell it, no one will ever defend the Florida governor's actions again."
"My family is not safe. My son has been taken on the gov's orders, and I've had to send my husband and daughter out of state for their safety. THIS is the reality of living in DeSantis' Florida. There is no freedom here. Only retaliatory rule by a fascist who wishes to be king," she said.
In addition to the threats, her son did also tweet a meme which featured a sleeping, overweight school security guard that read, "Cops in their car waiting for the school shooter to kill himself so they can go in."
She later tweeted DeSantis was responsible for her son's arrest over "non- threatening snapchat memes" and "That corrupt, fascist pig is about to find out that the runway people gave him to defame and attack me isn't there when you kidnap and charge 13 year old autistic kids whose parents happen to be your 'worst nightmare' with felony threats of terrorism for sharing snapchat memes."
She claimed that when her son was arrested he was "kidnapped."
She also linked to her GoFundMe.
Alejandra Caraballo, a far-left trans activist who has previously called for violence against Supreme Court justices, wrote on Twitter: they arrested Rebekah’s 13 year old son for posting a meme in a Snapchat group mocking police for inaction during mass shootings. Her family is being targeted by DeSantis.
Jones was fired in 2020 for insubordination and she was criminally charged for illegally accessing a state database in 2021, a case in which she later admitted guilt through a plea deal.
She was banned from Twitter in 2021 for spam and "platform manipulation."
She was the Democratic candidate in 2022 for Florida's 1st congressional district but lost that race to Republican Matt Gaetz.
I can kind of understand why her kid would have mental problems, being raised by this nuttier-than-a-squirrel’s-breakfast gal.
Crimea River.
Wow, looks like she’s a total nutcase. Even her husband looks nuts.
Here’s a direct link to the article you mentioned. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8344121/Married-Florida-data-scientist-fired-affair-student-arrested-three-times.html
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Thomas Sowell
Rebekah Jones’ son was arrested because the 13-year-old made repeated threats to shoot up Holley Navarre Middle School and to stab students who angered him:
In the messages to his friends, the teenager made the following statements, among others:
“I want to shoot up the school.”
If I get a gun I’m gonna shoot up hnms lol.”
“I’m getting a wrath and natural selection shirt so maybe but I don’t think many ppl know what the columbine shooters look like.”
“Okay so it’s been like 3-4 weeks since I got on my new antidepressants and they aren’t working but they’re suppose to by now so I have no hope in getting better so why not kill the losers at school.”
Jones isn’t a martyr; she’s a myth-peddler. She isn’t a scientist; she’s a fabulist. She’s not a whistleblower; she’s a good old-fashioned confidence trickster...Since she first made her claims Jones has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars through multiple GoFundMe accounts (and, once she realized that she was losing a percentage to credit card fees, through paper checks); she has became a darling of the online left.
There is an extremely good reason that nobody in the Florida Department of Health
as sided with Jones. It’s the same reason that there has been no devastating New York Times exposé about Florida’s “real” numbers. That reason? There is simply no story here..... By all accounts, Rebekah Jones is a talented developer of GIS dashboards. But that’s all she is. She’s not a data scientist. She’s not an epidemiologist. She’s not a doctor. She didn’t “build” the “data system,” as she now claims, nor is she a “data manager.”
Much of the national attention that Jones has received is the result of her insisting that, having learned about her “whistleblowing,” Governor DeSantis used his “Gestapo” and “raided” her house, putting her children in danger. But this, too, is a ridiculous lie.
Jones now claims that she was “terrified” by the police’s visit. But even this seems to be highly questionable. Not only did she prepare for the visit by creating a made-for-the-cameras sign that read “Biden hire me!” — hardly the instantaneous work of someone who is surprised that the cops are at the door — but she subsequently spread a host of extraordinary claims about the conduct of the police that, after festering online for a while and spawning a swiftly dropped lawsuit from Jones, were flatly disproven by the release of the body-camera footage.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/13/how-rebekah-jones-peddled-lies-about-florida-covid-19-deaths/
“Jones first teased the ‘breaking’ story about her son on Wednesday but said she needed the ‘Trump indictment fever’ to die down.”
LOL. The phony charges against Trump are going to dominate the news cycle for the next 18 months.
Also, this mom’s reaction is to play the media angle. Mom doesn’t know how to mom, but she sure wants to get some attention.
Apples do not fall far from tree.
Hey Laz?
Would you .... ya know?
Would ya?
Excellent Daily Mail article on that loonie. Thanks!
“Rebekah Jones led a team of Florida Department of Health scientists and public health officers to create and design a comprehensive COVID-19 dashboard
The 30-year-old said in a May 5 email that she was fired for refusing to ‘manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen’
DailyMail.com can reveal that she was fired in 2017 from Florida State University when she was a PhD student and instructor for having an affair with her student
Jones was charged with three counts of cyberstalking her student Garrett Sweeterman, then 21, who filed a restraining order against her
She allegedly created a ‘revenge porn’ website called SurvivingGarrett and sent the link to online boards focusing on women’s issues and the #metoo movement
Jones posted at least 60 pages of a 342-page manifesto with a narrative of the affair with Sweeterman, including screen grabs of sexts between the two
She claims in the essay that the fling with Sweeterman led to a pregnancy. She gave birth to a little girl in mid-2018 and shares an eight-year-old son with her husband”
Time for a democrat DA to indict DeSantis and prosecute. If he’s innocent he has nothing to worry about. Moohoohahahaha!
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