"Fargo police did not cover Angela's expenses to get home after her release from jail. Local defense attorneys gave her money to pay for a hotel room and food on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

The day after Christmas, F5 Project founder Adam Martin drove Lipps to Chicago so she could get home to Tennessee. Fargo-based F5 Project is an organization providing services and resources to individuals struggling with incarceration, mental health and addiction."

It's bittersweet to read bits like this. It reminds me of the Mr Rogers line about how, in a disaster, you should "look for the helpers" if you need reminders of goodness to avoid becoming demoralised.

I am glad that there are so many good people who are fighting for real justice — even people who have committed crimes don't deserve the inhumane treatment they experience under our legal system. I wish it weren't necessary though. These small kindnesses don't make up for all the ways this imprisonment fucked up her life.

What kind of fucking court would accept AI output as evidence, even for probable cause? Where has it ever been validated? What are the documented Type 1 and Type 2 error rates in independent peer-reviewed tests? Where is the output that gives the rationale for why it said there was a match? Because without that, there's no more reason to believe it than a Magic 8-Ball.

And holy shit, she's 50? That's three miles of bad Tennesee road.

Let's not forget about this part:

On Christmas Eve, five days after the interview with Fargo police, the case was dismissed, and she was released from jail.

But, Lipps was now stranded in Fargo.

"I had my summer clothes on, no coat, it was so cold outside, snow on the ground, scared, I wanted out but I didn't know what I was going to do, how I was going to get home," Lipps said.

Fargo police did not cover Angela's expenses to get home after her release from jail. Local defense attorneys gave her money to pay for a hotel room and food on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

This shit was barely one step up from a "starlight tour," and only because she didn't actually die of exposure.

It's sadistic on top of being unjust. The cops need to [redacted].

Spoiler, it wasn’t AI but a detective and a failed system abdicating using any thought.

Why did it take 5 months to even interview her? What the fuck it’s happening in US jails.

No, cops jailed her!
AI can't put handcuffs on a person.
It can't even make a decision.
Stop deflecting the blame.

What a bunch of incompetent pigs. I hope she sures for millions. 

AI is shit.

Facial recognition is shit.

But none of that was really the issue here:

Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail - classified as a fugitive, she had no hearing, no interview, nothing. North Dakota officers didn't retrieve her until October 30, 108 days after the arrest. October 31 was her first court appearance and the first time police spoke to her, reports InForum.

Arrested and thrown in jail for 108 days before seeing any sort of judge is a constitutional violation.

We hear about this because it's an obvious wrong case to an old innocent grandma...

But it's not the only time it's happening. And if this happened to her, it can happen to anyone.

A lazy/dumb cop or ICE agent can just declare you're someone they're looking for, and by the time it's settled your life is destroyed.

We can't keep kicking police reform down the road.

We can't settle for moderate politicians who say they'll try on a few issues.

We need politicians who understand that everything is fucked and desperately needs fixed across the board.

I’m appalled on how she was treated. I hope that throughout this whole ordeal she met kind people that treated here with decency and humanity.

Also, if that’s how the US treat its own citizens imagine how people being arrested by Trumps immigration police are being treated. Scary times.

Facial recognition software. Whether it's AI or not is debatable.

Archive It said she lost her home, job and dog. What a bunch of assholes.

Also this is the best part in the article:

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I hope she sues and makes it hurt.

ACAB

using and trusting llm at all for something like this is the crime here..

but then again, maybe this is just test run for taking away "unwanted" people, using handily mistaken facial recognition as excuse. If cases like this start happening more its propably that, and if they start happening enough people will lose interest and it wont be covere by media so much anymore. And after that they have neat system where they can capture anyone they want and can claim "mistake" if they get caught.

Sue the software company for defamation.

Clown ass country

Sue baby sue