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Rashida Tlaib Demands The Detroit Police Department Only Hire African Americans For Facial Recognition Program

Molly Prince
Rashida Tlaib Demands The Detroit Police Department Only Hire African Americans For Facial Recognition Program
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While touring the Detroit Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center on Monday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) urged the department to only hire black individuals to work as facial recognition analysts.

“Analysts need to be African Americans, not people that are not,” Tlaib told Police Chief  James Craig while he was showing her live footage from video cameras around the city.

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