FARGO, North Dakota (PNN) - September 19, 2026 - I wrote about Angela Lipps back in March because her case demonstrated exactly what happens when government begins trusting a computer more than basic human investigation. Now this 50-year-old Tennessee grandmother is suing the City of Fargo, North Dakota, along with a former detective for $10 million after spending nearly six months behind bars for crimes she could not possibly have committed. She had never even been to
North Dakota before this nightmare began, yet facial recognition software identified her as a possible match in a bank fraud investigation and the government machinery took over from there.
Lipps was arrested at gunpoint by U.S. Marshals in Tennessee in July 2025 while babysitting four children. Fargo police were investigating a woman who allegedly used fraudulent identification to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from banks, and facial recognition technology produced Lipps as a possible match. According to the lawsuit, investigators then compared photographs from her driver’s license and social media and proceeded against her. She eventually faced eight felony charges, including offenses carrying the possibility of years in prison, while basic financial records later showed she was more than 1,000 miles away in Tennessee when the crimes occurred.
AI did not walk into her house and put handcuffs on her. Terrorist pig thug cops did that. The computer produced a possible identification and human beings entrusted with the power of the state failed to perform the basic investigation necessary before destroying someone’s life. Technology gives government enormous power while simultaneously giving bureaucrats something else to blame when they get it wrong.
Lipps spent 108 days jailed in Tennessee before being transported to North Dakota where she remained incarcerated for months until her attorney produced records showing that she was in Tennessee when the thefts had occurred. The charges were dismissed on Christmas Eve. By then, according to her lawsuit and attorneys, she had lost her home, car, possessions, and even her dog because she could not pay her bills while sitting in jail. She was released in Fargo during winter without a coat and with practically nothing to her name. No computer experiences those consequences because the computer simply produces another output and moves on, and when she wins her case the terrorist pig thug cops who are responsible will not lose their property to pay for the damages inflicted upon her.
The United States has become a country where crime does pay because criminals are never held accountable for their actions.
