story in the South China Morning Post<\/a> is short on details, but it does say that police was using new facial recognition cameras to identify the person in the stadium crowd.<\/p>\n\u201cThe 31-year-old man detained last week, who is wanted for unspecified economic crimes, was said to be in shock when police took him away\u201d, writes South China Morning Post. He was quoted as saying he felt completely safe in the crowd of 50,000 other people \u2014 and who wouldn\u2019t be?<\/p>\n
Presumably, the cameras were looking for a large set of wanted people in the crowds, not unlike this key scene from the recent Robocop remake:<\/p>\n