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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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[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 93 points 4 days ago

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?

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 14 points 4 days ago

Doesn't a judge or DA or someone have to approve charges? Was it really all left up to one guy's shot judgement?

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

the only scale any of these chucklefucks use

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but they closed a case!!

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