Black man wrongfully arrested because of incorrect facial recognition

1:00In a June 8 letter to Congress, CEO Arvind Krishna spoke to IBM’s support of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020.A Black man was wrongfully arrested and held in a detention center for nearly 30 hours in Michigan afterincorrectly identified him as a suspect in a shoplifting case, according to the man, his attorney and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Robert Williams was wrongfully arrested and held in police custody after he was incorrectly identified by a facial recognition tool as a suspect.After being held overnight in a cell and later interrogated,"it became clear that his arrest was based on an erroneous facial recognition identification," according to the complaint.

The investigation officer -- allegedly looking"confused" -- told Williams that"the computer must have gotten it wrong," according to the complaint.He remained held in the detention center until he was arraigned in the afternoon, given a personal bond and eventually released at night, according to the complaint. Robert's fingerprints, DNA sample, and mugshot were put on file, the complaint stated.

"This case should not have been issued based on the DPD investigation, and for that we apologize," she Worthy said."Thankfully, it was dismissed on our office's own motion. This does not in any way make up for the hours that Mr. Williams spent in jail." Robert Williams was wrongfully arrested and held in police custody after he was incorrectly identified by a facial recognition tool as a suspect.

Another example of the media trying to divide us. It should say ' Man wrongfully arrested...'. There's no need to include his race. He was arrested wrongly, end of story. If he was Chinese, do you think it would say 'Chinese man wrongfully arrested...'? I don't.

Come on it happens to white men to they have a right to hold him for a certain amount of time Come on this news is becoming old fake news

And this surprises anyone? This shouldn't be allowed or used. If you think for a second it won't be used for nefarious reasons in the future you're not paying attention.

sue

...facial recognition technology was was purposely built for racial profiling. In this case the machine was fine, no glitch whatsoever, the machine did what it was built for

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you call it wrongfully arrested, I call it preemptively punishing a likely criminal. He should use this learning experience to understand why nobody wants to live around his kind. Do better, brown people.

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Thanks again ABC. anymore black people we should know about? You have plenty of fuel.

Do you have any idea how often this happens period? Jesus can we stop with the race card bs? Look at the damn data for once you cretins. JournalismIsDead

So you have any idea how often this happens period. Jesus can we stop with the race card bs? Look at the damn data for once you cretins.

We all don’t look alike. (Men or Women) Thank goodness for technology.

Oh no a case of mistaken identity. No one has ever experience they before. Must be racisiming.

Wow! Even the technology thinks we all look alike! WTF? 🤬🤬

I'm freezing alone

It’s happened to white ppl black ppl and all race, so you gonna put a black man up to get ppl mad. We’re on to you fake news

Big deal

Facial recognition always has been a problem for black people. Just ask google

I've had repeated reports of me being a different parts of Tulsa. And not in flattering ways. Truth

30 hours? So what. Shit in New Orleans u lucky if u get out in 3 days.

Thank God he survived the technology witch hunt I just pray the black American guys and girls will one day be free from this wahala one day even though some of them still racially abuse Africans

Cops need to follow the law stop accusing people for false arrest as well as killing people for no reason

This just demonstrates more and more race hatred gutter journalism from the ABC. I hope they sack more journalists, especially ones that create crap tweets like this. auspol

Privacy creeps!!! Wow.

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So far u are black, u will be subjected to everything bad. With the outcry for a change on how blacks are treated, there will sure be a minimum change from how things were initially done with impunity, but a whole change will take decades to achieve.

Sue and get paid

no drama and good job. if was released not hurted. we the taxpayer want arrested all the sick rats who destroy our society.

30 whole hours ? Oh no !!! Accidents happen kids. Get over it.

Let's blame technology for this one.. 🤔

How oppressive this country is.

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