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Miami Police Deployed Facial Recognition to Arrest George Floyd Protestor Allegedly without Cause

Occurred
Jun 24, 2020
Published
Feb 16, 2021
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Miami Police's arrest report for a George Floyd protestor did not disclose use of facial recognition, which allegedly did not meet the legal threshold for probable cause for arrest.

Developers

  • Clearview AI

Deployers

  • Miami Police Department
  • Law enforcement

Harmed parties

  • Oriana Albornoz
  • George Floyd protest participants

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%

Rationale: Incident involves undisclosed facial recognition use by police during an arrest, fitting surveillance and transparency concerns.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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