Post #4839593 · Elektrine

@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works

2026-09-17 18:09 UTC

Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective A Tennessee grandmother who spent six months in jail after facial recognition tech falsely linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation now wants compensation for what happened. Angela Lipps is suing the City of Fargo and a Fargo Police Department detective for $10 million over the incident, which led to the loss of her home, car, and dog. In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the county jail in Tennessee as a fugitive from justice wanted in North Dakota.

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@dan1101@lemmy.world 2026-09-17 21:56

Every person that did the shoddy police and prosecution work should have to lose their house and spend 6 months in jail to keep their jobs.

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@Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-18 03:31

Hope she gets every single dime and that cops loses every fucking thing he owns. Ruin her life knowing goddamn well she was not guilty.

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@rezifon@lemmy.world 2026-09-18 03:42

The lawsuit should include whoever wrote that train wreck of a headline, too

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@rekabis@lemmy.ca 2026-09-18 06:08

Detective Lucas Heck proceeded with charges despite knowing that Lipps lived in Tennessee, had never visited North Dakota, did not match the physical description of the suspect captured on surveillance footage, and had no unexplained funds linking her to the thefts. Wow, ACAB. How wildly incompetent are they?

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@palordrolap@fedia.io 2026-09-17 18:47

In an ideal world, she'd win every penny and the money would come out of the assets of each and every person involved in her arrest, including their immediate superiors so that lessons would be learned. She lost her assets through no fault of her own. Seems only fair that they should lose theirs, if not worse, because they actually did something wrong.

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@Avicenna@programming.dev 2026-09-18 17:54

Welcome to the future, you don’t have to be afraid if you didn’t do anything wrong.

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