One false match can lead to an interrogation, arrest, and — especially for Black men — even a deadly police encounter.

Players for the Boston Celtics wrote in an op-ed that calls upon Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to restore a police reform bill’s provision that would ban police and public authorities from using facial recognition technology. Gov. Baker has said he wouldn’t sign a bill that had a ban on facial recognition. (The Hill — December 16, 2020)