A Black man was falsely arrested and jailed in April for allegedly flashing a woman in New York City despite not matching the victim’s physical description of the suspect, based on a misidentification by facial recognition technology.

His lawyers are now calling for an investigation into the use of the technology by New York police, while civil rights advocates are demanding an outright ban.

Trevis Williams, 36, who is 6 feet 2 and weighs 230 pounds, spent more than two days in jail after a facial recognition program used by New York Police Department investigators selected his image from an array of mug shots in a database. Then a woman who had told police in February that an Amazon deliveryman had exposed himself to her in a Manhattan apartment building reviewed it among five other pho

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