On a cold, sunny October day on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, a group of men dressed in black gathers outside Brondby Stadium to shoot off a couple of rockets, raise their fists and shout about how the home team will soon beat — and beat up — the visiting archnemesis, FC Copenhagen.
Police are out in force, riot helmets at the ready. Brondby-Copenhagen matches have a history of leading to vandalism, arrests and general mayhem.
An attempted photo of the group gets a gloved hand in the face. “You need to stop,” says the hand’s black-clad owner, before he disappears back into the crowd. A security officer scurries over in concern.
“Don’t film them,” she warns NPR. “It’ll end badly. They don’t want to be recognized.”
Ironically, this group of black-dressed men is also the primary target of Brondby’s new facial recognition system.
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