NEW YORK (WABC) -- Civil rights and privacy groups are demanding an investigation into the NYPD's alleged misuse of facial recognition technology after a false match led to a man being wrongfully arrested for a crime he did not commit.

"I was so angry ... I was stressed out," Trevis Williams told Eyewitness News. "The man they were looking for, he was eight inches shorter than me and 70 pounds lighter."

Williams was falsely arrested and jailed for two days despite not matching the physical description given by the victim of a sex crime. The only similarities were that they were both Black men with locks, he says.

Location data from his cell phone showed that Williams was miles away from the crime, the New York Times first reported.

"Williams was driving from Connecticut to Brooklyn a

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