In an effort to reduce police brutality, the MrCheckpoint app maps where cops hide out for checkpoints — and lets users report if officers are abusing their power.
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00:00I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe!
00:05Settle down, just relax.
00:11This is unbelievable.
00:13I'm gonna make it up.
00:19I'm not anti-police, I'm really anti-bad police.
00:22This is actually the reality of people's interactions with police
00:27and it hasn't typically been shared.
00:37You want me to take you to jail for DUI?
00:40Uh, I haven't done a thing.
00:44Exactly. You're required by law to submit to a DUI investigation.
00:48A field sobriety test? No, I don't.
00:50What's that?
00:51I said I'm not required by law to do a field sobriety test.
00:58Come on!
01:04The time has come.
01:12What I always say is AFTP always film the police.
01:15In those instances where someone's life is taken unjustly
01:19or someone is beaten up for nothing,
01:21that video could potentially save their life.
01:25Shut up!
01:26You guys are beating him up!
01:28Why are you beating him up?
01:49Literally every day someone reaches out to me and says,
01:53You know, I ask them if they have footage, if they have proof,
01:56if they have a recording, and I would say 99% of the time they do not.
02:01And if it's your word against the officers, sadly, we know how that plays out.
02:12Hey, hey! What are you doing?
02:15Hey!
02:24Ladies and gentlemen.
02:31The relationship between the victims of police brutality
02:34and the police departments themselves is just really a narrow street.
02:38And the idea with this app is to make it 100% public, searchable,
02:43and allow people to have access to this 24-7, anytime, all the time.
03:02We have something like Yelp.
03:03When there's great service at the food spot, everyone knows it, right?
03:06We should know that about those particular officers.
03:10And additionally, when an officer has been found to have killed someone unarmed,
03:15I believe, again, the public should know.