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

When a pregnant Black woman was falsely arrested, she fought back. Here's what happened next. Plus, the week in AI

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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.

Are you kidding, carjacking? 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".