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WeCopwatch Veteran Empowers Communities After Police Tragedies

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Original CopWatch Member Jacob Crawford has been involved in recording the police since the early 2000s.

Today Jacob runs wecopwatch.org.

WeCopWatch is training citizen journalists in conflict zones across the United States from their home base in Oakland, California and in hot spots like Ferguson, Mo. and more recently during the #BaltimoreUprising.

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