By Kimberly Kindy, Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins and Ted Mellnik Oct. 17, 2020 at 2:14 p.m. EDT

The final moments of Stacy Kenny’s life are captured on a recorded 911 call. Kenny, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, begs an emergency operator to explain why she’s been pulled over. Amid screaming and rustling sounds, police officers smash the windows on her red Nissan, Taser her twice, punch her in the face more than a dozen times and try to pull her out by her hair.

But Kenny, 33, who legally had changed her gender but still appeared to be a man, was anchored to the car by a locked seat belt. Her life ends, as does the 911 call, when she tries to flee by driving away with one of the officers still inside the car. There’s a burst of gunfire, then an officer says: “We are all okay. Bad guy down.” Read HERE.

Fatal traffic stop shooting leads to Springfield paying $4.55M, review of police use of force

Jordyn Brown [email protected] July 21, 2020

The city of Springfield will pay $4.55 million and review Springfield police’s use-of-force policy and its accountability as a result of a settlement of a civil rights violation lawsuit filed by the family of a woman fatally shot by police during a 2019 traffic stop. Read HERE. And, all this was accomplished without a single demonstration, within approximately one year.