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Detroit Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Due To Faulty Facial Recognition
A Black man was wrongfully detained by the Detroit Police Department as a result of a false facial recognition (FRT) result.
- Date it happened
- 2019-07-31
- Organisation involved
- Detroit Police Department
- Product, system or model
- The facial recognition technology that the Detroit Police Department deployed sent back a shot of Michael Oliver and detective Donald Bussa assumed that he was the one who had snatched Stephen Cassin
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