This is the latest advice in vogue on social networks in the United States, and perhaps soon in France ... Internet users recommend installing a shortcut on your iPhone that lets you alert a friend and start recording video when the police signal you to stop on the side of the road.
Once installed, if necessary, the smartphone user only has to say to the voice assistant "Siri, I'm getting pulled over" ("Siri, I'm being checked by police ”) or click a button on the screensaver.
Film the arrest and send its location to a friend
The shortcut "interrupts the music, decreases the brightness and volume, activates the do not disturb mode, and sends a message to the contact you have chosen to inform them of the situation and your location. It launches your camera above the screen and films what's going on so that you have a recording afterwards, "explains developer Robert Petersen on the Reddit platform.
The standalone shortcut can only be downloaded and installed from Apple's browser, Safari, on an iPhone. It is not available on the smartphone application store.
The video recordings regularly used by both sides
Robert Petersen created this shortcut a year ago, but his popularity at the time comes from heightened distrust of the police, especially among African-American minorities. Since the death of George Floyd at the end of May, arrested and killed by a white police officer, hundreds of thousands of people have marched against police violence and systemic racism.
Video recordings are regularly used by both sides, during degenerating demonstrations, to prove aggression or self-defense. It is more complicated during arrests, where the arrested person depends on the cameras that certain police officers carry on them, or passers-by, as in the case of George Floyd.
In France, the National Observatory of Police Practices and Violence (ONVP) and the collective "Urgence notre police assassine" launched an application last March to film the actions of the police. “When they are filmed, the police very often seize the phones. Either they erase the video, or they break the laptop to make the images disappear, ”explained Amal Bentounsi, the author of this application , to 20 Minutes . A device not only aimed at victims of "police violence", but also aimed at "people who have been insulted or stigmatized because of repeated identity checks".
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