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I see lawsuits!

AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.

www.inforum.com

A grandmother from Tennessee is working to get her life back after what she says was a case of mistaken identity linked to North Dakota that nearly cost her everything.

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police connected her to a bank fraud case in the metro.

It's an alleged crime she says she didn't commit. In fact, she said she's never been to North Dakota.

So how could this happen?

Through an open records request, WDAY News obtained the Fargo police file in this case. In April and May 2025, detectives were investigating several bank fraud cases. A woman is seen using a fake U.S. Army military I.D. card to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars.

In an effort to help identify the woman in the surveillance video, court documents show Fargo police used facial recognition software. The software identified the person as Angela Lipps. According to the court documents, the Fargo detective working the case then looked at Lipps' social media accounts and Tennessee driver's license photo.

The nasty piece of this story is not the facial recognition failure, though that definitely places us in the shit to begin with. It's more about a serious miscarriage of justice.

Lipps told WDAY News that no one from the Fargo Police Department ever called to question her.

Officers from North Dakota did not pick up Lipps from her jail cell in Tennessee until Oct. 30, a total of 108 days after her arrest. Then, the next day she made her first appearance in a North Dakota courtroom to fight the charges.

In addition, after the case was dismissed and she was released from jail - on Christmas Eve no less - she had only summer clothes, basically what she was arrested in, found herself stranded in Fargo with no aid was forthcoming from the police to either provide shelter or get her home. Sickening.

 

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Oh hey, how's Capitalism working out for you?

Coke Canada Bottling terminates worker injured on the job, says keeping him would be too hard on the company

After spending 35 years as a factory worker for Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited, Hopkins says his bosses terminated him last month in a five-minute phone call with no benefits and no severance.

"Thirty-five years, not even a handshake,” said the 57-year-old Airdrie, Alta., man who was seriously injured on the job two years earlier.

[T]he company pointed to the rare legal doctrine it used to terminate Hopkins, one that labour experts say many workers have likely never heard about. It's known as "frustration of employment," sometimes called "frustration of contract."

It lets employers terminate a worker if an unexpected situation makes keeping them employed an "undue hardship" for the company.

But labour and human rights lawyer Suzanne Solsona says that legal argument is difficult for employers to prove, especially with a company the size of Coca-Cola Bottling.

"There's a real high bar on employers when it comes to frustration," she said.

Apparently it doesn't stop them from trying to use it.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Oh hey, how's Capitalism working out for you?

Coke Canada Bottling terminates worker injured on the job, says keeping him would be too hard on the company






Apparently it doesn't stop them from trying to use it.

Makes me glad to be a Pepsi girl.

Not that I don't expect PepsiCo to do the same thing. Corporations are evil.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Makes me glad to be a Pepsi girl.

Not that I don't expect PepsiCo to do the same thing. Corporations are evil.

Fun history.

Newfoundland had a Coke and a Pepsi bottling plant.

Coke closed theirs without warning.

Pepsi is everywhere in Newfoundland.


The power of SPITE, baby.

 

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Canada Dry for the win!

(I'm addicted to their blackberry ginger ale these days. I want to pick up the strawberry fruit splash, and not only because my local stores carry the zero sugar edition.)

 

[Isabeau]

Quadruple amputee and bean-bag-toss champion Dayton Webber accused in fatal shooting

Dayton Webber, 27, was driving when he opened fire on a man in the front-seat, police say.

www.bbc.com

The news clip probably won’t answer any of the questions running through your mind, but the comments had me cry-laughing.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Canada Dry for the win!

(I'm addicted to their blackberry ginger ale these days. I want to pick up the strawberry fruit splash, and not only because my local stores carry the zero sugar edition.)

The best ginger ale is Vernor's, bar none! I will die on that hill!

 

[Casey Pelous]

Quadruple amputee and bean-bag-toss champion Dayton Webber accused in fatal shooting

Dayton Webber, 27, was driving when he opened fire on a man in the front-seat, police say.

www.bbc.com

The news clip probably won’t answer any of the questions running through your mind, but the comments had me cry-laughing.

"The headline alone is not something you hear every day ....." The newscaster is a master of understatement.

Hell, just the first four words -- "quadruple amputee cornhole champion" -- qualified it for "you would have thought you'd never hear." "Suspected in murder" takes it out of the solar system.

 

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Wow.

Louisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated man

A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands. Calvin Duncan has been elected as the city's new clerk of criminal court, but now Republican lawmakers are racing to eliminate the position.

apnews.com

A man imprisoned for nearly 30 years before being exonerated won a landmark election in New Orleans promising to fix a judicial system that failed him. Now, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature are racing to eliminate his job before he can be sworn in.

Calvin Duncan won 68% of the vote last November to become the Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court after pledging to reform the justice system based on his own experience fighting to access court records while in maximum security prison.

Duncan rebuilt his life, in part by running for and winning the clerk’s office. But Louisiana Senate Republicans on Wednesday voted to scrap Duncan’s new job as part of a broader GOP effort to streamline the judiciary in New Orleans, a Democratic hub with a predominantly Black electorate. The state Legislature is largely Republican and white, and the deeply red state has been leading efforts to gut the Voting Rights Act.

Republicans are a hollowed out political party with nothing left to offer voters other than full scale swindling. Anyone claiming otherwise is either brain dead, or part of the swindle.

 

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Jesus.

Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen

It wasn't the first time the surgeon cut out the wrong organ.

arstechnica.com

A Florida grand jury has indicted surgeon Thomas Shaknovsky on charges of second-degree manslaughter for the 2024 death of a patient whose surgical procedure was horrifyingly botched.

That patient was 70-year-old William Bryan of Alabama, who was scheduled in August to have his spleen removed in a minimally invasive (laparoscopic) procedure. But instead, Shaknovsky opened Bryan’s abdominal cavity, severed his largest vein with a surgical stapling device—which led to his death—and cut his healthy liver from his body as he bled out, according to an investigation by the state health department. Bryan’s spleen was left untouched.

The second-degree manslaughter charge stems from an investigation by the Walton County Sheriff’s Office, which coordinated with the Office of the State Attorney First Judicial Circuit and additional state and medical authorities.

“The Grand Jury has spoken, and our responsibility is to ensure the charges are carried out through the proper legal process,” Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson said in an announcement of Shaknovsky’s indictment. ” Our thoughts remain with the victim’s family and their unspeakable loss.”

Shaknovsky was arrested Monday morning and has since been released on bond. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

Doesn't look like he'll be let off with a fine and revocation of his medical license.

 

[Noodles]

Quadruple amputee and bean-bag-toss champion Dayton Webber accused in fatal shooting

Dayton Webber, 27, was driving when he opened fire on a man in the front-seat, police say.

www.bbc.com

The news clip probably won’t answer any of the questions running through your mind, but the comments had me cry-laughing.

Thats the face of a man who knows he just needs to go sit in court while his layer throws guns and steering wheels at him whike screaming, "Look at him, just look at him, how can he shoot a gun????? Look at him, how can he even drive????"

Its like the perfect crime. The jury is never going to believe it even poasible.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas, 77, Goes on Unhinged Rant About 'Intellectuals'

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Oh, it's worse than that.

See, he grew up dark-skinned and speaking Gullah, so other black people were often still bigoted towards him as a child in the early 50s, which gave him a lifelong hatred of black people (even after his NAACP-supporting grandfather took him in and paid for his bills and education when he was only a few years old).

Then, when he went to college, he got into black nationalism (because it was pro-him, not because he gave a fuck about other black people), which he abandoned when he realized it wasn't just about him.

He also encountered racist rich white liberals, which made him hate liberals (conservatives were ok by him because they weren't trying to hide it).

Then, when he graduated from Yale, lots of law firms rejected him, assuming he only got into college because of affirmative action (which was true, but because of racism not his qualifications) and so he turned against college, too.

It's all just his own personal grievances.

 

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SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas, 77, Goes on Unhinged Rant About 'Intellectuals'

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He also said he believes many Americans no longer accept that “all men are created equal” and deserving of “unalienable rights” protected by limited government.

It's so lovely when a Constitutional originalist argue about the "original meaning of the Constitution" by quoting from the Declaration of Independence.

 

[Noodles]

He also said he believes many Americans no longer accept that “all men are created equal” and deserving of “unalienable rights” protected by limited government.

This really feels like the whole "Equality only feels like a downgrade when you are the one already in charge.". However that saying goes.

The idea that "special laws" protecting [Marginalized group] are "bad" because it means the majority gets limited and "why do we need these laws???"

Maybe because the majority fuckers can't be trusted to provide basic courtesy to others without being babied and told to with laws.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

It's so lovely when a Constitutional originalist argue about the "original meaning of the Constitution" by quoting from the Declaration of Independence.

And misses the irony that the people who wrote and passed the Constitution owned people like him.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

And misses the irony that the people who wrote and passed the Constitution owned people like him.

Some would say both he and his brother judge Sam Alito are owned by rich white men. As, indeed, are many politicians in both the main parties.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas, 77, Goes on Unhinged Rant About 'Intellectuals'

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As for the Black nationalist thing, he was in favor of Black seperatism, parallel institutions, and Black people not trusting government remedies for racism because he believed that white people couldn't be trusted. He was also opposed to interracial marriage.....really.

 

[detrius]

"The headline alone is not something you hear every day ....." The newscaster is a master of understatement.

Hell, just the first four words -- "quadruple amputee cornhole champion" -- qualified it for "you would have thought you'd never hear." "Suspected in murder" takes it out of the solar system.

I'm assuming the USA is so saturated with guns that even a quadruple amputee can become a suspect in a shooting through the power of osmosis.

 

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I'm assuming the USA is so saturated with guns that even a quadruple amputee can become a suspect in a shooting through the power of osmosis.

When a couple witnesses place him at the scene - they claim to have been in the backseat of his car at the time, and asked them to help remove the body from it - I think osmosis is not the kinetic force in action here.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

So you're the organizer of a reptiles expo and a vendor comes to you revealing that they saw the vendor next to them dumping dozens upon dozens of apparently dead lizards and snakes in the trash during the show, and that after checking the trash bags it turned out a not-insignificant number of the discarded animals were actually still alive. What do you do?

Obviously, you tell everyone who knows anything about it to keep their mouths shut and get the vendor who complained blacklisted from reptile shows across the country.