• danA
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    21 hours ago

    Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”

    What?? How is it prioritizing safety if it did exactly the opposite and created an unsafe environment (a bunch of US cops with guns pointed at teens)?

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      18 hours ago

      That was the quote I was about to paste, like what the actual fuck? Traumatizing innocent teens is functioning as intended eh? Wonder how many of our tax dollars is going towards this? Actually I probably don’t want to know…