this is what passes for due process these days in the empire; 

Lipps, a 50-year-old mother and grandmother from north-central Tennessee, was arrested at her home in July while babysitting four children. US marshals arrived with guns drawn. She was booked as a fugitive from justice.

“I’ve never been to North Dakota, I don’t know anyone from North Dakota,” she told WDAY News.

The case began with bank fraud in Fargo.

Between April and May 2025, someone used a fake US Army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from banks across the city. Detectives pulled surveillance footage of a woman at the counters. They fed that footage into facial recognition software. The software returned a name: Angela Lipps.

A detective wrote in court documents that Lipps appeared to match the suspect based on facial features, body type, and hairstyle.

That assessment, made by software and rubber-stamped in a report, was treated as sufficient cause for arrest. Nobody from the Fargo police called Lipps before the marshals showed up at her door...........more.........