https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4avx3m/facial-recognition-is-racist-why-arent-more-cities-banning-it

Early in 2020, a coalition of civil rights and community groups in Minneapolis joined forces to campaign for a sweeping city ordinance that would have given residents unprecedented insight into the Minneapolis Police Department’s use of surveillance technologies, and the power to decide how those tools were used in the future. It promised to be an uphill battle.

Then, on May 25, Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd.