Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers defended the school system's use of an Al program that led officers to mistakenly detain a student on Monday over a bag of chips. After football practice Monday evening, 16-year-old Taki Allen was eating a bag of chips outside Kenwood High School when he was quickly surrounded by police officers with their weapons drawn, who ordered him to get on the ground.
The officers were tipped off by administrators, who received a warning from the school's Al alert system that Allen was holding an object believed to be a gun, which turned out to be a bag of chips. When asked about concerns over the technology at a press conference Thursday, Rogers rebuked the idea of a comprehensive evaluation of the system, suggesting that she and her staff regularly review it.
