This is Democracy Now, DemocracyNow.org, The War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

As we continue with Part 2, looking at a shocking story out of Detroit, Michigan, involving

a woman named Portia Woodruff, who is eight months pregnant when police mistakenly arrested

her for robbery and carjacking.

Six officers showed up at her home as she was getting her little daughters ready for

school.

She was held for 11 hours than released on $100,000 bond.

Portia Woodruff says she started having contractions in jail had to be taken to the hospital

after her release due to dehydration.

A month later, after her arrest, prosecutors dropped the case because the Detroit police

had made the arrest based on faulty AI facial recognition match.

According to the ACLU, Woodruff is the first woman and at least the sixth person to

report being falsely accused of a crime as a result of facial recognition technology.

All six people have been black.

Portia Woodruff is now suing the city of Detroit and a moment will speak to Woodruff and

her attorney Ivan Land.

But first, for context, on the racial disparity that plagues facial recognition software used

by law enforcement agencies, democracy now spoke Tuesday with the artificial intelligence

expert, Joy Bollamwini, who founded the algorithmic justice league.

So even the latest research coming from the National Institute for Standards and Technology

shows in many instances, the worst performance is on the faces of black women.

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