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 love it when these cases come to light, and even to this day have some hope that the bad press, and expense of this lawsuit will incur some change in behavior from the city and police department. I know, pretty naive, right? Go get 'em Ms. Lipps, take the money and run.
Fargo PD is pretty bad. This is the exact type of shoddy police work I expect from them