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]]>Here are some of our favorites from 2016:
Paystack
Paystack offers a centralized way for African online merchants to accept online payments from a variety of methods. Created by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, the company recently closed $1.3 million in seed investment.
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]]>Today, officials in Cincinnati indicted a campus police officer on murder charges. This comes after Sam DuBose was shot in the head during a traffic stop two weeks ago.
Deaths like these – the killing of unarmed black men and women by white law enforcement – have many people calling for change. Atlanta’s Mbye Njie thinks he might have an answer.
He’s developing an app that aims to curb racial profiling by police. It’s called Legal Equalizer.
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]]>With the deadly cases of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and now Sam Dubose dominating national headlines, the perils of police racial profiling against persons of color are as visible as ever, at least for those paying attention.
Now, a new mobile app currently under development hopes to eradicate the kind of ambiguity that often allows profiling to continue. It’s called Legal Equalizer, and may prove to be an essential new tool for justice.
The app is the passion project of 34 year-old Mbye Njie, who began work on it earlier this spring.
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]]>The days of being helpless in cases of racial profiling could be on the way out if Mbye Njie has anything to do with it.
According to The Huffington Post, the 34-year-old insurance salesman is developing an app called “Legal Equalizer” that aims to decrease unnecessary stops, searches and arrests that many people of color have experienced at the hands of the police.
In its description, the publication reports that Legal Equalizer “records individuals’ encounters with police, assesses the individual’s offense and educates them on their rights.”
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]]>Sandra Bland had just relocated to Texas from Chicago to start a new job. She was stopped by police for her apparent failure to signal properly while changing lanes.
After an arrest in which she ended up on the ground with a cop’s knees on her back as her arms were pulled behind her, Sandra was jailed in Waller County, Texas, where Blacks make up about 25% of the population.
Three days later, Sandra was dead.
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]]>Like many people of color, Mbye Njie says he’s been racially profiled by police. And like many people of color — he’s fed up. Now, Njie is working towards a solution to minimize unnecessary stops, searches and arrests.
Following Mike Brown’s death in August 2014, Njie started working on ways to help combat racial profiling, and believed video evidence of such instances could make a huge difference in many cases.
This spring, 34-year-old Njie began working on Legal Equalizer, an app that records individuals’ encounters with police, assesses the individual’s offense and educates them on their rights.
Njie, who is an insurance salesman by day, has made this app his passion project and said he hopes it will prevent officers from abusing their power and getting away with it.
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]]>Digital media technologies can serve a critical role when examining the complexity of racial profiling. Cell phone cameras, video recordings and social media outlets provide users with the capability to expose racial inequality through second-by-second live action footage.
In addition to creating revolutionary movements such as #blacklivesmatter, digital platforms can provide evidence to combat unlawful policing and racial inequality.
Following the death of Michael Brown in August 2014, 34-year-old Mbye Njie began working towards a solution to expose racial profiling and minimize redundant stops, searches, and arrests.
Njie is creating a multi-faceted app called the Legal Equalizer that is aimed at promoting positive police encounters through a more legally informed citizenry.
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]]>Sandra Bland, Zachary Hammond, Michael Brown – the past year has seen a rush of incidents that build a wall between law enforcement and citizens. The North American public is now more wary of police than ever and we’re beginning to wonder, will it ever end?
Mbye Nije, an entrepreneur from Atlanta, is creating Legal Equalizer, an app that will help citizens protect themselves and be better prepared when encountering police.
This app is currently funding on GoFundMe – if you support this idea, I urge you to support the team with a donation.
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]]>This is the type of thing apps should be doing. Music, movies and games are fine; but how about securing your liberty. Think about it: Your rights are your RIGHTS, but only if you remember to invoke them! And will you remember your rights when local law enforcement is tapping on your window during a ‘routine’ traffic stop?
The police are trained to get information from suspects they might otherwise withhold; but you should NOT be treated like a suspect if you are not. Cops would certainly not mind a little leeway in dealing with a ‘tough arrest.’
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