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Ensure Police Accountability – Sidekik App
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You Have the Right to Remain Silent
Alexandra Bruce: “Last week, at Anarchapulco 2015, I saw Orion Martin give his presentation on a phone app that his company, Sidekik is developing. He’s been told, that when completed, it may be the most complex in app history.
Martin, an Afghanistan War Veteran spoke about the militarization of domestic police forces across the nation and I was struck by his compassionate presence and his open heart. We’ve all become so inured to the outrageous violence that goes on in our midst and perpetrated by our government in our names – but during his talk, he made everyone in the room become quietly present to these daily atrocities.
(Later, I had conversations with him about what is happening in Afghanistan and his observations were so hair-raising and sickening, that they violate the terms of service of my mass-emailer and Google Ads – so I can’t even publish what he said!)
We’ve all seen and heard of the escalating police brutality and the dozens of stories of police officers who’ve literally gotten away with murder. I even recently read a story about a Florida cop who’s sodomized 28 young boys – and he’s still on the job!
Well, this app is your answer to this growing problem. The moment you are pulled over or otherwise stopped by law enforcement, with one touch, the app will turn on your smartphone’s video camera and instantly have the contents of your interaction recorded to a online server, so that even if the police officer smashes your phone on the ground and destroys it – this act will be duly recorded.
If the officer does not smash your phone, your phone’s GPS will give you the option of alerting up to 50 lawyers in your area, who are waiting to not only take your call but to *represent* you, at the scene of the intervention – the time of the most urgency. The lawyer can proceed to have a video-streaming, recorded conversation, in your defense – directly with the police officer – because you have the right to remain silent – and you SHOULD remain silent.
At the time of his talk, Martin made no mention about what had driven him to create this app. I discovered on his website, that his good friend was beaten half to death by cops, and that “…After the punches, kicks, baton strikes, pepper spraying, and tasering were over, [his friend] was laying on the ground and still conscious. This is when he overheard the three officers talking to each other about their concerns that their criminal assault had been recorded. After ransacking the victim’s car and finding no recording devices the officers were now free to follow standard procedure and charge their victim with assaulting police officers and resisting arrest.”
Martin was at his friend’s trial and watched as a jury convicted his friend of the charges, even though the officers couldn’t keep their stories straight and all the physical and circumstantial evidence showed he was innocent. Martin concluded that the only thing which could have resulted in a different jury decision was audio/video evidence of the officers’ assault streamed and recorded to a remote server, to prevent the cops from destroying the evidence.
“Sidekik solves the problems of data recording and preservation as well as a lack of legal knowledge, and works to bring accountability for police misconduct through financial consequences. Individually, using Sidekik can help prevent you from having your rights violated during encounters with agents of the State by providing the means by which an attorney can represent you and defend your rights during the encounter, which also tends to act as a de-escalating force in the situation”
Recently, a handful of towns have had to fire their entire police departments because the number of complaints against them has rendered them uninsurable.
“Sidekik will streamline the formation of lawsuits against police departments by ensuring that evidence of rights violations is preserved and by providing a steady flow of attorneys willing to file lawsuits based on that evidence. In short, when the use of Sidekik becomes widespread, police departments will have two choices: change the way they do business – or go out of business.”
Martin also made no mention of his company’s imminent crowdfunding campaign but I found out about it on his site:
http://www.sidekikapp.com/#!about/c1535
In looking to do what I could to help this project, I discovered that the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise the final US$130k for the app’s completion launches this Monday, March 9th, 2015 – and if successful, the app could be available as soon as Q3 of this year. I don’t see it up yet on Indiegogo but I want to make sure that as many people know about this as possible.
Enter “Sidekik” into Indiegogo’s search engine, starting tomottow morning and if so moved, you can help to make this app a reality before the end of this year:
https://www.indiegogo.com
Source: http://www.earth-heal.com/videos/viewvideo/4697/ensure-police-accountability-sidekik-app.html
