PLASENCIA, NBC6 NEWS.
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>> THEY THROWING ROCKS.
>> Reporter: OFFICERS’ BODY
CAMERAS CAPTURE HECTIC MOMENTS
AS PROTESTERS SQUARE OFF WITH
MIAMI POLICE.
>> THE NBC6 INVESTIGATORS
OBTAINED EXCLUSIVE VIDEO FROM A
PROTEST IN MAY AND FOUND
CONTROVERSIAL FACIAL RECOGNITION
TECHNOLOGY WAS USED TO ARREST A
WOMAN ACCUSED OF THROWING ROCKS
AT OFFICERS.
HERE’S NBC6 INVESTIGATOR PHIL
PRAZAN WITH THE UPDATE.
>> Reporter: POLICE BODY CAMERAS
SHOW SOME OF WHAT HAPPENED
SATURDAY, MAY 30th.
>> GET CLOSE, GET CLOSE.
>> Reporter: A HEATED
CONFRONTATION BETWEEN PROTESTERS
AND MIAMI OFFICERS FORMING A
LINE OUTSIDE THEIR DOWNTOWN
HEADQUARTERS.
HERE YOU SEE 25-YEAR-OLD ARIANA
STANDING ON THE BACK OF A POLICE
CRUISER, AND FOR THE MOMENT
SHE’S CARRYING A SIGN AND WHAT
LOOKS LIKE A WATER BOTTLE IN HER
HAND.
AND THEN POLICE POP TEAR GAS.
AND MOVE INTO THE STREET.
YOU CAN HEAR DOZENS OF OBJECTS
HITTING THEIR SHIELDS.
POLICE SAY SHE THREW TWO R
AT AN OFFICER, HITTING HIM ONCE
AND INJURING HIS LEG.
AS POLICE TRIED TO REGAIN
CONTROL OVER PATROL CARS.
IN THIS VIDEO PROVIDED BY THE
DEPARTMENT, SHE CAN BE SEEN
THROWING SOMETHING AT OFFICERS
TWO TIMES.
BUT IT’S HARD TO SEE WHAT IS
THROWN.
A MONTH LATER, SHE WAS ARRESTED
AND CHARGED WITH BATTERY ON A
POLICE OFFICER.
SHE HAS PLEAD NOT GUILTY.
THE NBC6 INVESTIGATORS FOUND
POLICE USED THE FACIAL
REGNITION PROGRAM CLEAR VIEW
AI TO FIND HER.
POLICE DEPARTMENTS ACROSS SOUTH
FLORIDA, INCLUDING MIAMI, USE
THIS CONTROVERSIAL PROGRAM WE’VE
TOLD YOU ABOUT BEFORE.
IT IDENTIFIES PEOPLE THROUGH
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE PHOTOS,
INCLUDING THOSE FROM SOCIAL
MEDIA.
HER ATTORNEY, MIKE GOTTLIEB,
QUESTIONS ITS USE IN HER ARREST.
>> IT LOOKS LIKE THEY HAVE JUST
DONE A REGULAR PHOTOGRAPHIC
LINEUP AND HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR
THE VIGILANCE OF YOUR NEWS
AGENCY, I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN
THIS.
>> Reporter: POLICE MAKE NO
MENTION OF THE TECHNOLOGY IN THE
ARREST REPORT, ONLY WRITING THEY
USED INVESTIGATIVE MEANS.
>> HOW OR WHERE THEY GOT HER
IMAGE FROM BEGS OTHER PRIVACY
RIGHTS.
DID THEY COMB THROUGH HER SOCIAL
MEDIA?
IF THEY DID, HOW DID THEY GET
ACCESS?
>> Reporter: MIAMI’S POLICY
PROHIBITS THE USE OF CLEAR VIEW
AI.
>> IF SOMEONE IS PEACEFULLY
PROTESTING, WE CANNOT USE IT
AGAINST THEM.
>> Reporter: BUT IF A CRIME IS
COMMITTED, THAT CHANGES.
ACCORDING TO ASSISTANT CHIEF
CZAR IN AN INTERVIEW BEFORE THE
VIDEOS FROM HER CASE WERE
RELEASED.
HE SAYS THROWING ROCKS AT
OFFICERS IS A CRIME.
>> WE HAVE USED THE TECHNOLOGY
TO IDENTIFY VIOLENT PROTESTERS
WHO ASSAULTED POLICE OFFICERS,
WHO DAMAGE POLICE PROPERTY, WHO
SET PROPERTY ON FIRE AND WE HAVE
MADE SEVERAL ARRESTS IN THOSE
CASES AND MORE ARRESTS ARE
COMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
>> Reporter: HER ATTORNEY SAYS
HE BELIEVES THE POLICE
INVESTIGATION WAS DISINGENUOUS
AND HAS CONCERNS THERE ARE NO
STATEWIDE RULES AND REGULATIONS
WHEN IT COMES TO FACIAL
RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY.
BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO MENTION
THAT WE FOUND THE CITY OF MIAMI
POLICE’S POLICY ON CLEAR VIEW AI
IS MUCH MORE DETAILED THAN OTHER
DEPARTMENTS.
BROWARD COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE,
THE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY POLICE,
AND CORAL SPRINGS POLICE
DEPARTMENT ALL USE CLEARVIEW AI,
AND THEY TELL US THEY DID NOT
USE THE PROGRAM TO MAKE ANY
ARRESTS ON PROTESTERS.