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Rebekah Jones story is corroborated by Pensacola News Journal (Original Post) Jack the Greater Apr 2023 OP
Snippet at bottom for those who questioned the events: OneGrassRoot Apr 2023 #1
Is this the woman that was vilified for whistleblowing the Desantis was publishing fake Covid Takket Apr 2023 #2
Yes, same Rebekah Jones Jack the Greater Apr 2023 #3
Don't always take the cops word on things. hippywife Apr 2023 #7
So true... OneGrassRoot Apr 2023 #14
NEVER take the cop's word on things NickB79 Apr 2023 #15
DuhhhSantis is one vengeful MF'er. NoMoreRepugs Apr 2023 #4
THIS n/t malaise Apr 2023 #18
de santis is barbtries Apr 2023 #5
I've been hoping it was false. Torchlight Apr 2023 #6
The OP omits that the kid was threatening to shoot up a school AZSkiffyGeek Apr 2023 #12
I warned about this. cbabe Apr 2023 #8
Another way to... 2naSalit Apr 2023 #9
More info in Miami Herald article Bonx Apr 2023 #10
Umm... demmiblue Apr 2023 #11
Have you read what this kid threatened? BlackSkimmer Apr 2023 #13
Her story is not corroborated. The article shows she lied about why her son was arrested. Phoenix61 Apr 2023 #16
Corroborated? Dr. Strange Apr 2023 #17
I'm not about to back down now when I've beaten every false accusation they've used against me LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2023 #19

OneGrassRoot

(23,927 posts)
1. Snippet at bottom for those who questioned the events:
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 11:16 AM
Apr 2023
A spokesperson for the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office confirmed Thursday morning that Jones' son had been arrested.

SRSO spokeswoman Jillian Durkin said the Sheriff's Office had received reports of a threat from multiple students and that a felony warrant was issued following an investigation of the reports.

Durkin said Jones turned her son in to the Sheriff's Office.


Thanks for posting.

Takket

(23,445 posts)
2. Is this the woman that was vilified for whistleblowing the Desantis was publishing fake Covid
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 11:18 AM
Apr 2023

Numbers?

hippywife

(22,777 posts)
7. Don't always take the cops word on things.
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 11:35 AM
Apr 2023

A whole lot of what they report to the news, who then repeats it verbatim is pure copaganda.

OneGrassRoot

(23,927 posts)
14. So true...
Sat Apr 8, 2023, 08:36 AM
Apr 2023

The fact that her son had been arrested was in doubt for many people and the sheriff's office confirmed it. But the circumstances around the arrest could certainly be disinformation. Thanks.

Torchlight

(6,274 posts)
6. I've been hoping it was false.
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 11:32 AM
Apr 2023

If for no other reason than it's a damned difficult thing to swallow as actually being true in the nation I believed I grew up in. All I've got at the moment is that I can only hope this blows up in his face as badly as it is.

cbabe

(6,145 posts)
8. I warned about this.
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 11:42 AM
Apr 2023
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17766171

Leave now. Don't wait to lose custody of your child
with some bogus court ruling of child endangerment. Nothing you have is worth staying for.

(Warning for Indiana but applies elsewhere.)

demmiblue

(39,173 posts)
11. Umm...
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 02:08 PM
Apr 2023
Investigators interviewed multiple students who spoke with the teenager, as well as those who saw messages he posted on social media. 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.”

The teenager told one of his friends that he planned to shoot up the school the Thursday before Spring Break but there were too many things going on so he postponed it until March 31.


Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office investigators called the boy’s mother, Rebekah Jones, who said the family was vacationing in Mississippi but would call investigators when she returned. During the interview, Rebekah Jones confirmed there were no guns in the residents and the only weapons were kitchen knives, which she has stored in a locked box.
 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
13. Have you read what this kid threatened?
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 03:01 PM
Apr 2023

He needed to be detained at the very least.

Don't make jokes or silly threats about school shootings.

Phoenix61

(18,693 posts)
16. Her story is not corroborated. The article shows she lied about why her son was arrested.
Sat Apr 8, 2023, 10:32 PM
Apr 2023

She said her son was arrested on orders of the Governor as retaliation against her. That’s not true.

“An incident report released Thursday afternoon by the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office allege that the 13-year-old made repeated threats to shoot up Holley Navarre Middle School and to stab students who angered him.

Investigators interviewed multiple students who spoke with the teenager, as well as those who saw messages he posted on social media. 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.””

“The teenager told one of his friends that he planned to shoot up the school the Thursday before Spring Break but there were too many things going on so he postponed it until March 31.”

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