Minneapolis poised to ban facial recognition for police use

Committee voted 12-0 in favor of ban, advancing it to city council, months after actions of city's police sparked racial reckoning in US

The city of Minneapolis is poised to ban facial recognition software for police use, part of a growing movement to prohibit software known to have serious flaws identifying racial minorities and women.

The actions of Minneapolis police sparked a racial reckoning in the United States last summer when police officers knelt on the neck of George Floyd for more than eight minutes, leading to his death.