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A Black woman says she was wrongly arrested in Detroit due to the faulty use of facial recognition technology.
According to NBC News, 37-year-old LaDonna Crutchfield filed a federal lawsuit last week, alleging that police mistook her for an attempted murder suspect after relying on faulty facial recognition technology.
Crutchfield said she was at home with her children last January when police handcuffed her and took her into custody, thinking she was their prime suspect.
The Detroit mother "was identified as a suspect by an unknown facial recognition database," her lawsuit states.
According to the lawsuit, the name of the suspect did not match that of Crutchfield's, and the alleged shooter was five inches taller and several years older than the innocent woman.
Police claimed they linked Crutchfield to the suspect through a partial license plate of the shooter, which led them to a house where the woman's relative used to live.
The lawsuit states that a detective showed Crutchfield photos of the suspect, saying, “You got to admit it looks like you."
"Why? Because I am fat and Black like her?” Crutchfield responded.
Crutchfield wasn't released until she agreed to provide police with her fingerprints and a DNA sample, per the lawsuit.
Police "knew or should have known that their conduct would cause severe emotional distress to" Crutchfield, "especially in light of the public nature," her lawyer said.
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