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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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

How was this charge not thrown out immediately?

Essentially, it was. As soon as anyone actually took a look at the evidence. The problem is that the police held her in jail all that time claiming they had a positive ID when that was not the case. There are several problems to highlight here:

  • poor police training on the tools they use
  • lack of reasonable guidelines on how those tools should be applied
  • an overburdened and slow-moving justice system that allows someone to be in jail for 6 months (or longer sometimes) before there's any action on their case
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