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The SEC champs are the regular season champs. It's always been that way. The tourney is just a tune up for the real tourney. Winning it is nice, but it's not the way the conference champion is determined.

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Cream Abdul Jabar

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Mike White postseason basketball.

It’s become extremely predictable

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FARGO, N.D. – Despite charges being dropped by the Cass County State’s Attorney’s Office, Fargo Police Chief David Zibolski said in an exclusive interview with Flag Family Media he doesn’t know definitively what, if any, involvement Angela Lipps had in a Fargo bank fraud investigation.

The department used facial recognition as part of its investigation to allege Lipps committed the crime. She said she’s never been to North Dakota.

“This wasn’t on anyone’s radar until the last week-and-a-half, two weeks. I had no knowledge of this whatsoever that this occurred. As soon as we got the first couple of inquiries, I sent it to our investigative unit captain for response. As would be our typical response, it’s an ongoing investigation and we can’t talk about it,” Zibolski said.

The charges against Lipps were dismissed without prejudice meaning they could be refiled against her in the future. Zibolski said Fargo Police continues its investigation into the case.

“We take constitutional rights and due process of our community members very seriously,” Zibolski said.

Chief Zibolski tried to clear up questions from the community in this case regarding why Lipps was in jail for so long before being interviewed by detectives and why she left the Cass County Jail without winter clothing.

Zibolski said Lipps was arrested on July 14, 2025 and she also was held on a local charge unrelated to the Fargo case. He added the Cass County State’s Attorney’s Office was notified she would be extradited to North Dakota on October 20. Ten days later, Lipps was booked into the Cass County Jail.

Zibolski pointed out when someone is booked, jail staff reach out to the State’s Attorney’s Office and not the investigating law enforcement agency.

Zibolski said the first time his department was told Lipps was in jail was December 5. Her attorney told Fargo Police one week later he had evidence he believed showed she wasn’t involved in the crime and arranged a police interview with his client.

On December 23, charges were dropped and Lipps was released the next day. Zibolski said a detective tried to arrange her a ride home and offered money for a hotel room, but Lipps refused. Zibolski said this suggested she already had a ride.

Zibolski talked with Cass County Jail Captain Andy Frobig who said Lipps didn’t make a request for winter clothing which is available to people released from jail.

“We’ll be discussing communication with Cass County and the State’s Attorney about issues like this going forward to see if there’s a better way to create notification that we’re at least aware that someone was in custody,” Zibolski explained.

Chief Zibolski said artificial intelligence was used in the Lipps investigation, but other steps to find evidence were taken before bringing the case to the State’s Attorney’s Office. The chief didn’t say what that could be citing the active investigation. He said he doesn’t believe mistakes were made by his department in the case.

“That information requires additional investigative steps. That’s really best practice. I can’t just rely on that solely and that wasn’t the sole reason in which this case was put together,” Zibolski said in regards to his department using artificial intelligence.

Flag Family News reached out to Cass County State’s Attorney Kim Hegvik asking why her office believed Lipps should be charged with bank fraud-related crimes and if she signed off on those charges being filed against her. We received an automated message saying she was out of the office. Flag Family News called the Cass County State’s Attorney’s Office to see if anyone else could respond to our questions, but we were told to wait for Hegvik to respond to our email.

Last week, Flag Family News emailed Hegvik asking why Lipps was charged with some of the main evidence being facial recognition despite her never being in North Dakota. We never received a response.

Zibolski was asked if he would like to offer Lipps and apology.

“We don’t want to see anyone improperly arrested or detained although that does happen in our criminal justice system and sometimes things like this occur. The investigation is still open and we do not know definitively what, if any, her level of involvement is,” Zibolski said in response.

The Fargo City Commission met in executive session on Monday, March 16 to receive advice from the city attorney on possible civil or criminal litigation involving the Lipps investigation.

Chief Zibolski said the Lipps case wasn’t a reason he announced his retirement last week.

“I had been planning this as I said at the press conference in discussions with my family for some time,” Zibolski explained.

Zibolski’s last day with the department is Friday, March 27.

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An AI system’s little oopsie, and a police department’s staggering incompetence, landed an innocent grandma in jail.

Harrowing reporting by North Dakota radio station WDAY details how the 50-year-old Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in the clink after Fargo cops using an AI facial recognition tool flagged her as a suspect in a bank fraud case in the state.

The mother of three — and grandmother of five — says she’s lived her entire life in north-central Tennessee, roughly a thousand miles away from where the crimes she was accused of committing took place. US marshals showed up at her doorstep last July while she was babysitting four kids and arrested her at gunpoint.

First, Lipps was booked in a Tennessee county jail as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota. And because she was considered a fugitive, she was held without bail and sat in the jail for nearly four initial months. Lipps received a court-appointed lawyer for the extradition process, WDAY reported, and was told she’d have to travel to North Dakota to fight the charges.

“I’ve never been to North Dakota, I don’t know anyone from North Dakota,” Lipps told the station.

According to Fargo police department files obtained by WDAY, the error arose from surveillance footage detectives viewed while investigating bank fraud cases in April and May 2025. The footage shows a woman using a fake US Army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars.

To generate leads, the detectives turned to AI facial recognition software, which identified Lipps as the person in the video.

The cops seemingly did little to verify the AI’s lead. Court documents showed that a detective agreed that the suspect’s facial features, body type, and hair were a match to Lipps. But Lipps said that no one from the Fargo police department ever called to question her.

Adding insult to injury, the Fargo police didn’t pick up Lipps from her Tennessee jail until 108 days after her arrest, after which she was flown to North Dakota to make a court appearance. The first time they interviewed her was in December, when she was being held in the North Dakota lock-up, after she had spent more than five months behind bars.

“If the only thing you have is facial recognition, I might want to dig a little deeper,” Jay Greenwood, a lawyer representing Lipps in North Dakota, told WDAY.

Greenwood produced bank records showing that Lipps was more than 1,200 miles away in Tennessee at the time that investigators say the bank fraud was perpetrated. With Greenwood having essentially done their jobs for them, the police released her from jail on Christmas Eve, and dropped the case.

But Lipps says that the police didn’t even offer to pay for her trip home, and with no money to her name, she was stranded in Fargo. Sympathetic local defense attorneys pooled together money to pay for a hotel room, and a local nonprofit called the F5 Project arranged her trip back to Tennessee.

“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.

Lipps says she lost her home, her car, and her dog as a result of her stint in jail. No one from the Fargo police department has apologized for the disastrous mix-up, she said.

This isn’t the only criminal case of mistake identity caused by AI tools. In April last year, the New York Police Department arrested a man named Trevis Williams based on a facial recognition match from grainy CCTV footage — despite Williams being over half a foot taller than the suspect in the video. That February, a woman in Detroit sued the city’s police department, alleging that it arrested her after a facial recognition tool identified her as a murder suspect, despite similarly blatant discrepancies in her physical appearance.

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Duke/Miami?? What is juicy about these. Is this a list of juicy stories behind the games?

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They were 8th. Being ahead of 4 teams makes them 4th

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