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Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective (www.techspot.com)
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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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[–] 75 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Everybody should just periodically read random court cases, this stuff has always been extremely common and the sop when the mistakes are uncovered is to double down, just attempt to fully bury the innocent person in the system. This is a daily occurrence in every single state in the US.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Real talk, I just saw a quick video about how the mythbusters proved two dudes didn't start a fire they were tortured into signing a confession for. They got a hearing and it was shown that the sheriff had a history of putting innocent people away. And after they were PROVEN FUCKING INNOCENT, they still spent another 17 years in jail!!!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago*

    I sat on a jury for a murder trial a few years ago. It's incredible how sloppy it all felt.

    Real life is absolutely not Law & Order where the top cops and prosecutors have a perfect case of evidence and then the killer confesses.

    Two things that stuck out, witnesses in the car, all gave basically the same account, but not one gave the same drugs they picked up at the time they stopped for drugs.

    The defense couldn't quite decide which direction the car was facing in relation to the other vehicle (it was a drive by)

    Also they had a video from a gas station they stopped at. And it was like... I guess that is a person, it's not obvious if it's anyone involved in this case." Because it's a cheap gas station camera on a roof, not some perfect HD zoom zoom enhance image.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    There was a black dude in detroit that got falsely accused, and despite having an alibi and it clearly not being him they tried to make it stick anyway. That was a few years back.

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