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.
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.