“I was like, that is not me. Who is that?” she told local TV station
WJBK.
Her mother,
Juliea Robinson, added: “You’re just saying every young Black, brown girl with glasses fits the profile and that’s not right.”
Juliea shared the rink’s photo scan on her Facebook page and described how her daughter was racially profiled by the establishment.
“So, i had the worst experience with Riverside Skating Rink,” she wrote in a post that has since been made private. “They scanned my daughter’s face and stated that she’s banned per this picture below in the corner that is not my child!!”
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Lamya Robinson: Black teen kicked out of skating rink as face recognition tech misidentifies her
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