Name: Student activist at UNC-Chapel Hill creates texting alert system to battle police brutality
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Description: Kerwin Pittman, the brains behind CodeBlue Brutality Alert, designed the system to send out text alerts in real-time when Law Enforcement/ Police in Wake County is critically injuring or murdering someone.

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Kerwin Pittman, the brains behind CodeBlue Brutality Alert, designed the system to send out text alerts in real-time when Law Enforcement/ Police in Wake County is critically injuring or murdering someone.



BOND AND HAS BEEN RELEASED. DEBORAH MONICA CASEY LIVE IN DURHAM. THANKS, MONICA. YOU CAN NOW SIGN UP FOR TEXT ALERTS SYSTEM IN WAKE COUNTY THAT WILL INFORM YOU OF INSTANCES OF POLICE BRUTALITY. >> IT WAS STARTED BY A LOCAL ACTIVIST WRAL'S. SARAH KRUEGER EXPLAINS THE MOTIVATION BEHIND IT AND WHY SOME WORRY IT COULD MAKE SITUATIONS MORE DANGEROUS. >> THE TEXTING SERVICE WORKS 2 WAYS YOU CAN SEND IN TIPS ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY AND YOU CAN BE INFORMED ABOUT THE INCIDENT RIGHT NOW. IT'S JUST HERE IN WAKE COUNTY, BUT ULTIMATELY ITS FOUNDER WANTS TO TAKE IT STATEWIDE >> WHEN YOU GET A TEXT THROUGH CODE BLUE BRUTALITY ALERTS ITS CREATOR, KERWIN PITTMAN HOPES IT WILL DO 2 THINGS INFORM YOU OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO TO THE SCENE. I'M NOT SAYING >> CITIZENS TO BE VIGILANT IS AND TRY TO PHYSICALLY WITH STRAY LAW ENFORCEMENT. WHAT I'M SAYING IS THEY NEED TO BE THERE TO PUT EYES ON THE SITUATION WAS GOING ON. I THINK IT'S IRRESPONSIBLE. RICK ARMSTRONG WITH THE UNION REPRESENTING RALEIGH POLICE OFFICERS FEARS THE MASK TEXTING SYSTEM WILL MAKE SITUATIONS MORE DANGEROUS FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED THAT OFFICERS DEALING WITH A WHATEVER HE THE CORPORATE SCHOOL ON THE SEAT CREATE DARIO AND >> AND IT REALLY COULD REALLY CREATE A LOT OF PROPS. THIS APP IS ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY. >> AND SO IF THE OFFICERS ARE FOLLOWING LOT ALONG TOO POLICY AND PROCEDURE THEN IT SHOULDN'T BE NO ISSUE WITH ANYTHING. HIDDEN ACKNOWLEDGES, THOUGH, THAT NOT EVERYONE WHO SIGNS UP FOR THE TEXT WILL HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS AND WILL HONESTLY TRIED TO TAKE SEEN THAT TURNED OUT TO BE AND SO WE HAVE WITH. >> THOREAU TEAM WHO WILL BE VETTING THESE TIPS THAT COME IN TO POLICE REPORTS. LISTEN TO SCANNERS. ARMSTRONG BELIEVES BETWEEN BODY CAMERAS AND DASH CAMERAS. THERE ARE PLENTY OF ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS FOR OFFICERS ALREADY IN PLACE. HE SAYS THE UNION WILL TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE NEW SYSTEM AND ITS POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS AS YOU GET SO BAD, BUT STEPS TO TAKE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES TO PROTECT CITIZENS, TO SIGN UP. YOU TEXT JUSTICE TO THIS 9, 8, 4 NUMBER PITTMAN SAYS SINCE LAUNCHING YESTERDAY ABOUT 100 PEOPLE HAVE REGISTERED.

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Student activist at UNC-Chapel Hill creates texting alert system to battle police brutality

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WITH JEFF. QUITE AN ORDEAL. THERE ARE NO DOUBT GLAD SHE IS OK, DESTINY. PATTERSON LIVE IN CARY, THANK YOU. >> PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS RETURN TO UNC CAMPUS TODAY TRYING TO GET THEIR MESSAGE HEARD FOR THE UNIVERSITY TO DIVEST FROM ISRAELI COMPANIES, WRAL, SHAUN GALLAGHER HAS BEEN THERE ALL MORNING. AND SEAN, TODAY'S PROTEST PLAYED OUT MUCH DIFFERENTLY THAN WHAT HAPPENED EARLIER THIS WEEK. >> THAT'S RIGHT. RENEE, YOU KNOW, IS A VERY QUIET MORNING USE BARRICADES THAT WERE PUT UP REALLY NOT NECESSARY AS PROTESTERS GATHERED AT A NEARBY PLAZA JUST OFF OF CAMPUS AND WHAT THEY WERE HERE FOR IT WAS LARGELY PEACEFUL. I'LL BE AT A LOUD PROTEST ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE CAMPUS. NOW. IT WAS AN EARLY MORNING THE GROUP ARRIVED HERE JUST AFTER 08:00AM AND HAD SOME SPEECH IS ABOUT THE CONCERNS THEY HAVE ABOUT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN THE ISSUES WITH THE UNC ENDOWMENT INVESTING IN COMPANIES WITH ISRAELI CONNECTIONS. BUT THEN THE GROUP SET OFF ON FOOT AROUND THE CAMPUS OF NEARLY 2 MILE LOOP, STOPPING TRAFFIC AND PEACEFULLY INTERRUPTING STUDENTS DAILY ACTIVITIES. IT IS A CONTRADICTION OF REALITIES FOR SOME IN THE GROUP LIKE THIS. YOU IN SUITS, UNC STUDENT. I SPOKE TO PROTESTING AGAINST THE SCHOOL WILL SOON GRADUATE FROM. >> I DON'T KNOW. I THINK I'M PROUD TO A STUDENT HERE. I THINK THE STUDENTS ARE SHOWING UP, BUT I CAN'T SAY THAT I'M PROUD I'M PROUD OF. YOU CAN SEE IN THE SYSTEM AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING. I KNOW THAT ABSOLUTELY. NO ONE IS PROUD OF THE INTERIM CHANCELLOR, THE PROVOST AND HOW THEY'VE HANDLED THE SITUATION AND HOW YOU CAN SEE IS CONTINUING TO CHOOSE TO INVEST IN DOMINANT. >> AND AFTER ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF, THE GROUP MET UP AT THAT PLAZA AND I HAD SOME CLOSING REMARKS AND EVERYBODY LEFT AND WERE ON THEIR DAY. BUT AS FOR THESE BARRICADES THAT ARE OUT HERE ON THE QUAD, I REACHED OUT TO UNC TO SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY IDEA FOR WHEN THESE WILL COME DOWN, BUT THEY DIDN'T GET BACK TO ME YET IN CHAPEL HILL. SHAUN GALLAGHER GALLAGHER, WRAL NEWS. ALL RIGHT, JOHN, THANKS FOR THAT UPDATE. >> FRENCH POLICE CALMLY CLEARED THE MAIN HALL OF ONE OF PARIS'S UNIVERSITIES THIS MORNING. PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS SHOUTED SHAME AND FREE PALESTINE. A KEY DEMAND OF SOME PROTESTERS HAS BEEN THE BREAKING OF TIES WITH UNIVERSITIES IN ISRAEL. POCKETS OF PROTESTS HAVE BEEN SEEN AT SOME CAMPUSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IN AUSTRALIA, SUPPORTERS OF PALESTINE AND ISRAEL HELD OPPOSING RALLIES, PRO-PALESTINIAN SUPPORTERS LINED UP THEIR TENTS IN ROSE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY TODAY CHANTING FOR ISRAEL AND THE

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