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The Civil Rights Lawyer
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The Civil Rights Lawyer is a personal blog at thecivilrightslawyer.com about politics and culture. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “AI Software Tells Cops to Arrest the Wrong Guy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Civil Rights Lawyer, a video and written channel, for coverage of police use of force, flimsy-information gunpoint stops, and AI-driven mistaken-identity arrests.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Constitutional Law, Civil Rights Law, Police Misconduct, Civil Rights Law, Liberty.
Most-linked posts?
- AI Software Tells Cops to Arrest the Wrong Guy2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-12
What Hacker News says?
I expect that John Bryan -- who produces content as The Civil Rights Lawyer https://thecivilrightslawyer.com -- will have something to say about it. He frequently criticizes the legality of police holding people at gunpoint based on flimsy information, because the law considers it a use of force, which needs to be justified. For instance, he's done several videos about "high risk" vehicle stops, where a car is mista…
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on “Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon”Submitted AI Software Tells Cops to Arrest the Wrong Guy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe droplet narrative is a year expired. Sure it happens but recent studies with infected chimps and masks shows full room dispersion after a relative short time. "A study from the National Academy of Sciences Press establish that most of the COVID-19 particles emitted from those infected are aerosols, or consisting of 0.3 to 0.5 microns. “Droplets” consist of particles much greater in size than aerosols. The scienc…
Comment linking /2021/04/06/masks-do-nothing-to-stop-the-spread-of-covid-and-are-harming-children/
on “Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?”Reminded me of this video of AI software causing an innocent men to be arrested: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2026/03/11/ai-software-tell...
Comment linking /2026/03/11/ai-software-tells-cops-to-arrest-the-wrong-guy/
on “AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case”John Bryant, aka The Civil Rights Lawyer, recently did a piece about a similar case of mistaken identity. The consequences weren't as severe, but the willingness to trust the AI over any other evidence was the same: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2026/03/11/ai-software-tell... In the video, it shows a police officer blindly trusting a casino's AI software, even when a cursory investigation should have given any re…
Comment linking /2026/03/11/ai-software-tells-cops-to-arrest-the-wrong-guy/
on “AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case”https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/about/ Send this guy your story, he might be able to help you
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on “Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict Innocent People”