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AI-Powered Facial Recognition Technology Disproportionately Exposes Shoppers Of Color To Racial Profiling

AI-Powered Facial Recognition Technology Disproportionately Exposes Shoppers Of Color To Racial Profiling

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After Hollywood police arrested two Black men for allegedly trespassing at a Party City store in 2019, a cashier prepared a written statement saying the men had forced their way inside after being told by employees that the store had closed for the night. "They forced themselves after we told them no," the employee wrote. "When the cops arrived and try to come to the male with the purple hoodie, he got angry fast and started resisting, verbally and physically." The two men, 20-year-old Ricardo Florestal and 23-year-old Bill Alcius, were booked on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest; ...

They're black? how do you get around that analysis on the enforcement side. >> like i said, you have to have reasonable suspicion to stop somebody. you have to have probable cause. how do they know those credit cards were bad? because a transaction was made for $1,200 and they were black? that's not enough. >> can we talk about that? i was thinking about this all this morning, all last night knowing we were going to talk about this. this has sparked a lot of conversation about shopping while black. >> sure. >> my feeling is we have seen incidents where people say they were detained. we heard o...