'Are you kidding, carjacking?': The problem with facial recognition in policing

Porcha Woodruff was eight months pregnant when police in Detroit, Michigan came to arrest her on charges of carjacking and robbery. She was getting her two children ready for school when six police officers knocked on her door and presented her with an arrest warrant. She thought it was a prank. Do you see that I am eight months pregnant?" the lawsuit Woodruff filed against Detroit police reads. She sent her children upstairs to tell her fiance that "Mommy's going to jail". She was detained and questioned for 11 hours and released on a $100,000 bond. She immediately went to the hospital, where she was treated for dehydration. Woodruff later found out that she was the latest victim of false identification by facial recognition. After her image was incorrectly matched to video footage of a woman at the gas station where the carjacking took place, her picture was shown to the victim in a photo lineup. According to the lawsuit, the victim allegedly chose Woodruff's picture as the woman ...