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I hope the people of Texas are forced to pay her restitution.
“Julie just so happened to have a family that was able to get the information together, if we needed to get the funds together,” Charon Hudson said. “It’s so many people out there that don’t have that. And that’s what struck a chord in me.”

They’re right.  I really hope she goes through with her lawsuit.  They used freaking social media to identify a ph d student from all the way across the country as being a suspect in a shoplifting case.  That’s absurd. >

I don't think that's absurd at all. I think police should retain the ability to take to social media to ID people and we should know that public info and pictures will be searched. 
What is absurd is that a judge signed a warrant based solely on the name and sort-of matching picture. They didn't bother trying to get any info to confirm.
Also why didn't this girl have her lawyer go to the station to clear things up? Like damn c'mon girl, in a PhD program but don't got a brain. >

Very cool of you to victim blame >

Hopefully whoever wrongfully charged her loses their job, but that never seems to happen. >

I'd say your almost correct, but in the last few months I've noticed a lot of officers being fired.  I think change is happening.........slowly. >


I've noticed a lot of officers being 

Moved to a different department the next county over. >

Two black women who "look alike" and use the same name, even though one lives on the other side of the country. Police work doesn't get much lazier than this. >


Police work doesn't get much lazier than this.

If doing something badly is easier than doing it correctly
and there's no punishment for doing it badly
people will do it badly. >

Not me >

Welcome to 2023. Buckle up.... >

To everyone that thinks we should have the death penalty, remember that this isn't a one off occurrence and we almost never hear about it. >

Facial recognition still struggles with black faces >

A good example of why diversity in the workplace is valuable. >

This story should be about the unreliability of facial recognition software, particularly with people of color. >

Well, it was that and her having the bad luck to share a name with the actual suspect. Of course, with a name like Julie Hudson, they should be double and triple checking everything else about the person which clearly they didn't do.