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After casino security detained him, officer Richard Jager arrested him, accusing him of using a fake ID. The lawsuit alleges Jager refused to check other forms of ID that Killinger says he carried. Killinger was held for 12 hours. He has filed a lawsuit against the city of Reno, alleging it failed to train officers on the legal use of facial recognition tools. A lawsuit against Jager is already ongoing and will now include Reno as a defendant. 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Source 2 concerns a different incident (Flock license plate readers in Colorado) and was excluded. Not stated: the date of the casino flag or arrest, the disclosure date, the AI system's model, developer, harness or vendor, autonomy level, and any control that held. Whether the system alone or Jager's decision caused the error is not established. The 'thousands of unlawful arrests' and 'widespread custom' claims are plaintiffs' allegations, not findings. Judgements made: incident_class set to 'other' because no closed category fits a facial recognition misidentification; deployment_context set to production because the system guided a real arrest; context.country set to US from the federal court and Nevada/Reno references; context.industry set to law enforcement; severity set to moderate because only one party is stated as affected and the broader scope is unverified; the missing-control link maps the alleged failure to train police to I4. Root cause, trigger, responsible party, and agent involvement are not stated and were left out. No remediation was reported in the sources. 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