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Jimmy Gomez: “But I had no doubt that I was misidentified because of the color of my skin than anything else.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2020
But I had no doubt that I was misidentified because of the color of my skin than anything else.
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Jimmy Gomez
Democratic · California

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Gomez discusses personal experience with misidentification due to racial bias in technology.

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