CEO of Minneapolis-based TurnSignl aspires to make app the next OnStar startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
App connects drivers with lawyers to de-escalate police interactions during traffic stops pbs.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pbs.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Victor Omondi In the aftermath of the 20-year-old Daunte Wright’s police shooting in 2021, a community in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, is being offered a free app that swiftly connects residents to lawyers around the clock and records traffic stops. According to the Star Tribune, the Minneapolis-based software firm TurnSignl has developed an app that […]
Like many Americans, Jazz Hampton and two of his friends, Andre Creighton and Mychal Frelix, watched in horror as two fellow Minnesotans, Philando Castile and George Floyd, were killed by police officers following what seemed to be routine traffic stops. If only there had been a way to de-escalate those situations while protecting the rights of the person detained, as well as the law enforcement officer involved. So they came up with one.