Toula Amanna’s hacker story has a Facebook problem and a federal court problem.
Toula Amanna, soon-to-be-failure-of-a-candidate for Davie Town Council, posted a three-step plan for residents who want better lives. Step one: study the issues. Step three: organize. Step two: Grab your gun and charge City Hall.
No, I shit you not.
Says future-failed-wiped-out-in-the-polls Amanna, she wants YOU!, yes YOU!, “TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO PICK UP GUNS AND FIGHT IN PUBLIC, IN PERSON against the forces that ruin a city, a state and the entire country.”
Honey, go back to Greece.
She told Florida Politics the comment is hers. Several hundred words, all hers, except step two. That part, she says, came from hackers who got into her phone and computer, likely working for Deerfield Beach. “I’ve never spoken about guns,” she said. She says she owns none and opposes them.
Well, perhaps true, as she wants YOU!, yes YOU!, to charge town hall with your guns.
The label
Facebook marks a comment when it’s been edited. Florida Politics reviewed a screenshot taken before Amanna edited hers on Friday. It had no edit marker. She acknowledged that.
So nobody broke in later and tucked a sentence into her comment. Step two was there the moment the comment posted.
That leaves her one version of events. The hacker was inside her phone while she typed. He added the middle item of her list before she hit post. She then published a three-step plan without reading step two, and it sat in a group of 7,900 people until a reporter called.
Asked for proof she’d reported a hack to anyone, she said she has evidence but can’t share it, because she’s saving it for federal court.
“Every time Toula Amanna loses,
a computer did it.”
– Chaz Stevens
Federal court
Here’s her federal case. Class Act Restaurant Group v. City of Deerfield Beach, 0:24-cv-61127. Amanna, though not a class act, is Class Act’s managing member. She ran the pier restaurant, some might offer into the ground, on a ten-year city lease that ended in 2023.
Renewal was the City’s call, “in its sole and absolute discretion.” In October 2022 she saw a city procurement webpage listing her lease with a 2028 end date, emailed her thanks for the five-year extension, and called it a deal.
Sorry Kojak, that’s really bad detective work.
A clerk typed that entry as recordkeeping. Amanna’s company admits the clerk had no power to approve a lease. Asked under oath whether she understood only the City Commission could extend one, Amanna said, “Absolutely.”
The Commission took up rebidding the restaurant at a public meeting. She wasn’t there. She bid and finished third of three. She testified she understood the formal protest rules, then emailed the city manager instead. No filing, no fee. The City evicted her. Florida Politics puts the unpaid rent around $700,000.
On August 16, 2026, Magistrate Judge Jared Strauss recommended judgment for the City, writing that the website entry is “at best, a ‘mere scintilla’ of evidence.” Judge Damian hasn’t ruled. Discovery is closed. There’s no place in that case for a hacked phone.
The ladder
Take her accusations in order.
- The website was a contract.
- The City coerced her into a 180-day extension. Her email that day thanked them for “working it out.”
- A rival watched her presentation over Zoom from a city office. Under oath, she said nobody saw the rival watching anything.
- After the eviction filing, her complaint says, the City cut off roof access until her crew used a ladder to clean the grease hoods, loaded fireworks during her lunch rush, closed her parking lot, and for ten years hauled her compost off with the regular trash.
- The City destroyed video of the presentations in bad faith. The City had produced audio. Strauss wrote that the argument “goes nowhere” and the court “can do nothing but speculate.”
- After Strauss, a new one: the City is hiding audit logs from its procurement software. She says she asked and got a spreadsheet and a lawyer’s word that nothing else exists. The City says she never went to the vendor. No judge has touched it.
Her company filed that brief September 15. Three days later she told a reporter Deerfield Beach hacked her phone.
She’s one hacked motherfucker.
“We’ve traced the call.
It’s coming from inside the house.”
— When a Stranger Calls (1979)
None of it has been proven anywhere. But look at the last three rungs: video files, audit logs, a phone. When she loses, the City did it, and lately the City does it with a computer.
Two explanations
One: since 2022, a city government has run a conspiracy that needed a records clerk, a purchasing office, a fireworks crew, a garbage truck, missing videos, hidden logs, and a hacker who types in real time. This is the same city that couldn’t keep its own procurement website straight.
Two: a businesswoman misread her lease, skipped the meeting, skipped the protest, got evicted, is losing in court, got angry, and typed something she now regrets.
I told BSO I don’t know whether step two crosses a criminal line. I asked for a threat assessment, because that’s what they’re for. I’ve also asked them to have Meta preserve her login records and edit history. A candidate who was really hacked would want that more than I do.
The docket’s public. Go read it first.
