dash-cams are good, too.
if there is going to be a surveillance state make sure to get your copy.
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Russia is famous for everyone having dash-cams in their cars to protect themselves from insurance fraud hucksters.
Maybe it’s time for everyone in the US to have body-cams on their lapels to protect themselves from the cops.
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Everyone in the United States — citizen or resident
Surely it’s everyone, not just citizens and residents?
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You mean like in every other country?
(That doesn’t mean police there don’t remove or cover those numbers, though.)
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The boys are back in town, and they’re getting the old bund back together again.
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But take caution when recording.
Leave your regular phone turned on at home and never turn your burner on anywhere near it. If possible, store your burner in another location, away from home and work.
If you record protesters, try not to record anything identifying. If you can (before uploading into the wild), strip metadata and cover (don’t just blur) the faces of fellow protesters.
Write contact numbers, including those for legal aid on your forearm in sharpie. If you are arrested, you don’t have to look them up and you can share. Wear long sleeves.
Do not answer questions. Especially questions about political affiliations. Tell them only that you want to speak to a lawyer.
It sounds paranoid, but these are paranoid times. Especially since by recording, the cops are going to have reason to be looking for you.
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You know, even if he had tripped (even if George Floyd was having an episode of a pre-existing medical condition), the pure indifference and general failure to act in a caring and compassionate manner means they should be at least fired. Preferably prosecuted and locked. Every single cop who saw that guy down and walked on should be out on the street. No pension, no cobra, no un-employment. Need to figure out a way to oust union leadership that stands behind these guys too.
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I wonder what the workaround is when local telco networks are blacked our during protests like what happened in Oakland a few years ago.
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I’m in California. When I search the Android Play Store the only ACLU-tagged apps are ACLU Blue (low rating) and ACLU Mobile Justice: Georgia, both by Quadrant 2, Inc. which also has a MigraCam app. Various other legal and monitoring apps appear but not ACLU Mobile Justice: California. Please advise.
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Who will want to be a policeman then if they know mistakes will lead to no pension, no cobra and no un-employment?
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I am presuming that there’s 2 things in play for the state-level apps:
Regional data centers
Video sent to the local ACLU
Which boils down to:
Bad coding. There’s no good reason this needs to be one app… It seems to be copy-paste code, with some URI’s swapped out on the back end, is my guess. Which makes me wonder why they don’t have the apps for every state…?
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“Mistakes?” Allowing other officers to murder someone right there in front of you is not a mistake, it’s being an accessory.
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Please try here: https://www.mobilejusticeca.org/ It says that apps are available for iOS and ANDROID.
Assuming that not everybody’s phones are confiscated or destroyed, perhaps you could use a peer-to-peer app, something like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tutk.P2PCamLive&hl=en_US
Resources, I assume. The app includes also information about your rights in each state.
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yeah, that’s not an explanation so much as a taunt
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also keeping bystanders away so they couldn’t intervene
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A word of caution: if the risk of killing someone doesn’t stop those psychopaths in uniform, it surely won’t any law forbidding them to confiscate protesters items. Therefore arm yourself with concealed cameras, like the ones that can be hidden behind a pocket button, or similar devices. There are many new technologies that can be used to help filming; also using a concealed camera while also filming with a cellphone will help to expose cops violating those laws. In those cases I think a hundred witnesses can’t stand a single video.
Now, for those who like using a solder iron, take a look at the “ESP32-CAM” board, a very small and cheap device with camera and WiFi capabilities which can be programmed using the well known Arduino IDE to stream videos to a small laptop kept in your backpack, a cellphone or other devices. It is so small that it can be concealed, batteries included, in any place where cops will pass by, then triggered remotely so that their actions and conversations (with no people in vicinity) can be recorded from within a mailbox, a billboard etc. then streamed in realtime or retrieved later.
However, be prepared for WiFi and cellular network jamming. which in similar situations is becoming a norm in many countries. For direct communications between protesters it might be worth using less known technologies. “LoRa” is a very slow but long range (as the name implies) system that is not suitable for photos and videos in realtime (possibly voice using the right codec; “Codec2” might be a candidate) but could allow people to text from much longer distances compared to WiFi. It isn’t jamming proof, do not expect strong security, but it’s relatively young and unknown to the general public so that probably they wouldn’t expect anyone using it during protests. The “pocket popcorn computer” is an interesting project which should be ready for distribution in a few months; it already has a LoRa radio module on board. No idea about the project status and the costs however.
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Which “fallen officers”, eh?
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Is "general failure to act in a caring and compassionate manner " also being an accessory?
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