Please help support the completion of this smartphone application.
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Dear Paul,
Last week, at Anarchapulco 2015,
I saw Orion Martin give his
presentation on a smartphone 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 governments, 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,
including about what is happening in
Afghanistan and his experiences
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
hundreds 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 would've been 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
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
"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 in his talk of
his company's imminent crowdfunding
campaign but I found out about it
on his
site.
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 tomorrow morning, and if
so moved, you can help to make this app
a reality before the end of this year.
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Alexandra Bruce
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