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Cops used AI to match a photo to an innocent grandmother in Tennessee, then jailed her for nearly 6 months

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 26, 2026
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A falsely arrested woman was jailed for nearly six months (YouTube/The Civil Rights Lawyer)

Angela Lipps had never been to North Dakota, never been on an airplane, and had barely left a 100-mile radius of her home in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Fargo police arrested her anyway — guns drawn, at her trailer — after AI facial recognition software matched a blu…

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