How do I delete a messed up Time Machine backup?

Bad mistake. I tried to do "sudo rm -f -r backups.backupdb" or whatever the path was and also tried to use Finder to delete my backups folder. I later realized that there was a "delete" option in Time Machine. The problem is, Time Machine got messed up when I tried to go into it because I corrupted the backups folder. Now, when I try to empty the trash, it doesn't work. How do I get rid of these things?
Also, one time when I emptied it, it said that I had a negative number of files left to delete.... Then the rm process was spamming my CPU. I restarted it just now.

Also, sudo rm -f -r doesn't work. I get a lot of errors. I read that it has to do with the ACLs, but I don't want to remove them since I have a lot of permissions set up. The same drive contains other machines' backups.

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