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the system “functioned as intended,” [...] Baltimore County Public Schools echoed the company’s statement
"We want a system that sends armed cops primed to kill a black student", says the community elected school board. "We believe that's what our racist constituents want", they continued.
It sure looked like a gun in the message, assuming that was the image that was sent out and not a dramatisation.
Also, I think it worked exactly how it was supposed to. It SWATted a person of colour. Par for the course. As it was trained to do.
Eating Doritos while black
That is a marketing image from the gun-identifying software company and isn’t actually related to the article.
The article said he was outside and the crumpled bag of Doritos was hanging out of his pocket. He wasn’t brandishing it like a firearm.
I wonder how much the student will get in the lawsuit.
0 dollars. Police beat the shit out of students all the time
It's unjust to force children and Teens to go to schools that use these creepy tools. They must be removed before a student gets killed by cops because of it
They'll just say that kids getting shot by the cops is worth it to prevent kids shooting each other.
This is awful, but if we're going to do futuristic dystopia, we should have more fun with it. Along those lines, it should have been a bag of Cheetos for being "dangerously cheesy."
This infringement on civil rights brought to you by Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of Pepsi Co., and chewers like you.
This man’s crime? Still has Dorito dust on his fingers.
Cop: “That’s a crime in these parts.”
The actual dumbest timeline
I remember when Henrietta police did this with an umbrella. Didn't even need AI.
You know that vintage meme you'd see hanging on pub walls: "drink coffee! Do stupid things faster and with more energy!"?
I guess ai surveillance is like that but for police ineptitude. Goody!
It kind of makes sense. Too much of that shit can kill you.