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Excerpts from the Amended Complaint in Williams v. City of Detroit
Background:
"In January 2020, Detroit police wrongfully arrested [ACLU] client Robert Williams outside his home, in front of his two young daughters and wife and in plain view of his neighbors, and subjected him to thirty hours of detention in an overcrowded, dirty cell. Mr. Williams’ was the first publicly reported instance of a false face-recognition “match” leading to a person’s wrongful arrest."
The ACLU "filed a civil-rights lawsuit on Mr. Williams’ behalf against the individual detective responsible for his arrest, the City of Detroit, and Detroit’s Chief of Police." The case was resolved with a settlement in 2024. If you'd like to see the full list of documents related to the case, you can access them at this link.
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This link is to the Complaint (the pleading filed by the ACLU making a civil rights claim). Please read: (a) points number 1-16 which summarize the case; (b) the headings in the "factual allegations" section (points 25-55).
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