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.
Shit like this sucks because it’s the taxpayers that get stuck with the bill. I’m so sick of these huge companies using taxpayers to pay for everything because they dont want to spend their vast fortunes. We see the same thing with huge tax write offs for building things with the promise of more trickle down benefits.
I remember this story.
This is why facial recognition is bullshit.
Damn, that’s the type of shit that makes one want to rob a bank just hearing about it
Rob a bank? Go to jail.
Don’t rob a bank? Beleive it or not, straight to jail
10 Million seems low to me. Cars and homes can be replaced: pets and neighbors and community cannot be replaced, they are priceless.
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?
Yeah, but they closed a case!!
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.
The lawsuit should include whoever wrote that train wreck of a headline, too
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.
And their dog.
How was this not like immediatly cleared up, dont people have bond hearings within the week, whos rubber stamping this shit
How did she lose her dog?
You are gone for six months, what are they going to do? Leave the dog to starve to death? The local pound or some other animal rescue organization picked them up and (hopefully) re-homed them (or otherwise put them down)
Someone would have to know she has a dog. Presumably, the dog could be picked up by a family member or friend. The article doesn’t specify what happened.
