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Dexcom shares plunge over 40% after Q2 outcomes

Dexcom shares plunge over 40% after Q2 results

Dexcom Shares fell more than 40% on Friday, their sharpest decline yet, after the diabetes management company reported disappointing second-quarter sales and issued weak guidance.

The stock fell $43.85 to close at $64, wiping out more than $17 billion in market capitalization. Before Friday, the biggest drop came in September 2017, when shares plunged 33% in one day. Dexcom made its stock market debut in 2005.

Dexcom's revenue rose 15% to $1 billion from $871.3 million a year earlier, according to a press release late Thursday. Analysts had expected revenue of $1.04 billion, LSEG said.

Investors' bigger concern was the forecast. For the third quarter, Dexcom expects revenue of $975 billion to $1 billion to “account for certain one-time items impacting seasonality in 2024,” the press release said. Dexcom updated its full-year forecast and now expects revenue of $4 billion to $4.05 billion, compared to the $4.20 billion to $4.35 billion it forecast last quarter.

Dexcom offers a range of devices such as continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for patients diagnosed with diabetes. On the quarterly earnings call, CEO Kevin Sayer attributed the difficulties to a restructuring of the company's sales team, fewer new customers than expected and lower revenue per user. Part of the shortfall was due to customers taking advantage of discounts on the new CGM called the G7. In addition, the company said it underperformed in the durable medical equipment (DME) space.

“DME distributors remain important partners in our business, and we did not execute well on those partnerships this quarter,” Sayer said on the conference call. “We need to refocus on those relationships.”

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Analysts downgraded the stock from a buy to a hold on Friday, saying the report represented a “sharp turn in the wrong direction.” The analysts said they still had some unanswered questions but were convinced the company's performance was due to internal issues and not related to market changes such as the rising popularity of weight-loss treatments called GLP-1.

In the question-and-answer portion of Thursday's conference call, JPMorgan's Robbie Marcus asked for more details on the significant reduction in forecasts and said he was “shocked” at how much disruption a change in the structure of the sales team could cause.

“I feel like there’s more that needs to happen,” Marcus said, asking if GLP-1 had an impact.

Sayer responded that the company is “missing a larger number of new patients than we would have expected at this time.” He said the restructuring of the sales team, which resulted in changes in geographic coverage, was more dramatic than expected because doctors are now dealing with different representatives.

In their note, JPMorgan analysts emphasized “the magnitude of the downward movement” and said the fact that it “appears to be largely self-inflicted is simply difficult to comprehend in its entirety.”

Regarding DME's difficulties, Sayer said the company has lost customers “who have the highest annual revenue per year,” adding that eligibility for G7 rebates is three times faster than with the previous product, G6.

Jereme Sylvain, Dexcom's chief financial officer, said all of these variables added up to a $300 million shortfall compared to the company's annual forecast.

“It's certainly not something we're happy about,” Sylvain said. He said that in the interest of “complete transparency,” the company needed to provide clarity on “what impact this will have for the rest of the year.”

Analysts at William Blair wrote that Dexcom's results were “disappointing” but their long-term view remains unchanged. Dexcom has the ability to expand the market and recover recent market share losses, they said.

“This short-term dynamic is likely to prove temporary,” they wrote in a statement on Friday.

Leerink analysts agreed, writing in a report Friday that the “magnitude of the sell-off is overdone” and that the issues currently hurting the company are unlikely to have a material impact on Dexcom's longer-term trajectory.

In March, Dexcom announced its new The over-the-counter CGM called Stelo has been cleared for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Stelo is designed for patients with type 2 diabetes who do not use insulin. Dexcom announced Thursday that it will officially launch in August.

Friday's sell-off has sent Dexcom shares down nearly 50% for the year, while the S&P 500 has risen 15%.

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Technology

Grok chatbot trains with X person knowledge and ‘very possible’ violates EU regulation

Grok chatbot trains with X user data and ‘very likely’ violates EU law

Elon Musk could once again have a problem with the European Union.

Musk's X has made it possible to train the chatbot Grok with data from any user. This feature is now enabled by default, which may violate EU rules.

Deep in X's settings, users discovered evidence of data collection. Next to a checkbox that was already checked, they discovered the following text: “Allow Grok to use your posts, interactions, inputs, and results for training and fine-tuning.”

This approach could violate the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which prohibits companies from expanding data collection without informing users and offering them a clear opt-out option.

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According to the data protection group NOYB, it is “highly likely” that the setting violates the law.

“Twitter/X should have properly informed its users and asked for their consent,” the Vienna-based nonprofit told TNW. The group is currently reviewing the details of the data collection.

X and Grok are not alone

X's approach is reminiscent of a recent move by Meta. In June, the company was criticized for plans to train AI models using personal data – without obtaining users' consent.

NOYB filed complaints against the system in eleven EU countries. Meta then stated that it had a legitimate interest in using the data.

The tech giant argued that there was a legal basis for training artificial intelligence using publicly available information.

X could make a similar claim. Whether the EU agrees or not, users can opt out of the setting. But even that isn't particularly easy.

There is no clear way to opt out of data collection in the X mobile app, but fortunately the company has allowed opt-out in the web version.

You can either use this direct link or open X and navigate to Settings > Privacy & Security > Grok, then uncheck the box that sends your data to Elon's hungry bot.

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Steelers participant Russell Wilson out once more resulting from calf issues

Steelers player Russell Wilson out again due to calf problems

  • Brooke Pryor, editor at ESPNJuly 26, 2024, 1:52 p.m. ET

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    • Previously, he covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and Oklahoma University for the Oklahoman.

PITTSBURGH – For the second day in a row, Mr. Unlimited’s attendance at Pittsburgh Steelers training camp was very limited.

Coach Mike Tomlin decided to bench quarterback Russell Wilson again out of caution after the quarterback suffered a calf injury during the team's conditioning test on Wednesday afternoon.

“We did a sled-pushing drill and modified it a little bit,” Wilson said. “…When we pushed the sled four or five times, I felt something. … I feel good. There's no need to panic or worry at all.”

Wilson wore a baseball cap and sneakers at the Steelers' second practice. He did not participate in individual or team drills. He threw light balls with the quarterbacks during warmups and played a football with his teammates between drills.

“The good thing is that I get a lot of mental reps and I throw things in during and after training. [work]Wilson said. Although Wilson didn't have a timetable for his return, he said he could play if today was a game day. By benching Wilson, Tomlin told the quarterback he was causing him “short-term problems.”

“I want to come back today, yesterday,” Wilson said. “But coach says, 'Listen, we have time and we're still here. And I've done a lot of reps in the offseason, so let's not try to just rush it.'

“I hate not practicing. [Tomlin] laughed. He said something like, 'I like that. You have to wait a minute.' And stuff like that. So it was funny. I think the coach and the trainers are just being super careful so that nothing bad gets or happens.”

In Wilson's absence, quarterback Justin Fields continued to play on the first team and showed a strong connection with wide receivers George Pickens and Calvin Austin and tight end Pat Freiermuth. On 7-on-7, Fields threw a long pass to Pickens and the receiver leapt up to catch it, making a spectacular catch over cornerbacks Joey Porter Jr. and Donte Jackson.

“There are some really great plays, and there are plays that he reacts to, and this and that,” Wilson said of Fields. “So that's part of training, and he does a good job. He's a really good competitor. He processes it well, and he's definitely a tremendous young talent.”

Tomlin highlighted backup quarterback Kyle Allen as another beneficiary of Wilson's absence. On the secondary, Allen was 2-for-2 in the team's seven-throw drill, scoring touchdowns with tight end MyCole Pruitt and rookie wide receiver Roman Wilson.

“I was really happy for Kyle Allen today, man, he got more work because of Russ' injury,” Tomlin said. “It was a really great opportunity for him today. I thought he did some nice things.”

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Science

Do you get Jupiters that sizzling?

This artist’s impression shows a Jupiter-like exoplanet that is on its way to becoming a hot Jupiter — a large, Jupiter-like exoplanet that orbits very close to its star. Courtesy: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva

When we think of Jupiter-like planets, we usually picture massive, cloud-covered worlds orbiting far from their stars. This distance prevents their volatile gases from being evaporated by the heat of the stars, much like what happens in our solar system. So why do so many exoplanets, known as “hot Jupiters,” orbit very close to their stars? That's the question astronomers ask as they study these extreme worlds more closely.

It turns out that hot Jupiters don't start their lives in such close proximity. Instead, they form much farther from their stars in the protoplanetary nebula. This raises the question: How did they migrate inward? The planetary scientists' answer was “we're not sure.” But astronomers at MIT, Penn State University, and a number of other institutions believe they have a better answer. They have found a hot Jupiter “progenitor,” a young version of a Jovian world that is slowly transitioning from cold to hot. The clues lie in its orbit and could provide insight into how other planets evolve.

Introduction of a Proto Hot Jupiter

This new world is called TIC 241249530 b, and it lies about 1,100 light-years away from us. Instead of orbiting its star in a nearly circular elliptical orbit (like our Jupiter does around the Sun), this world is in a highly elliptical orbit. This squashed “egg-shaped” orbit takes it very close to its star (about 10 times closer than Mercury's orbit). Then it moves out to about the distance that Earth is from the Sun. Not only is that a weird orbit, but it gets weirder. The orbit is “retrograde.” That is, its direction of motion is opposite to the star's rotation. Think of it this way: The star rotates in one direction, and the planet orbits it in the opposite direction.

Both the highly elliptical orbit and the retrograde orbit tell planetary scientists that the formerly “cool,” Jupiter-like world is evolving into one of those hot Jupiters. And as if that wasn't weird enough, the star the planet orbits is actually a binary star. That is, it has a stellar companion. Over time, successive interactions between the two orbits – the planet's and its star's – force the planet to move ever closer to its star. This forces its elliptical orbit to change into a tighter, more circular one. This will take about a billion years, and then the planet will have fully evolved into a hot Jupiter.

An orbital comparison of this evolving hot Jupiter if it existed in our solar system. Courtesy of NOIRLab.

How do hot Jupiters fit into the formation theory?

The standard theory of planet formation usually assumes that rocky worlds form closer to their stars than gas and ice giants. This is because the heat of the newborn star evaporates any “volatile” gases like hydrogen and keeps them away from newly forming planets. Worlds with lots of these volatiles are more likely to form in cooler places where these gases don't evaporate.

Artist's impression of early planet formation from gas and dust around a young star. Planets with large amounts of volatile elements (such as hydrogen) require cooler environments much farther from their stars to preserve their volatile elements. So-called “hot Jupiters” can form farther away but then migrate closer to their stars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

So does this new world fit that theory? According to MIT's Sarah Millholland, it does. “This new planet supports the theory that high eccentricity migration should explain some of the hot Jupiters,” Millholland said. “We think this planet must have been a frigid world when it formed. And because of the dramatic orbital dynamics, in about a billion years it will become a hot Jupiter with temperatures of several thousand Kelvin. So it's a huge shift from where it started.”

So this hot Jupiter (and many others observed in exoplanet studies) started out farther from its star. Then it came closer through orbital interactions. This could explain many of the hot Jupiters observed in exoplanet discoveries.

Simulations of orbital dances

“It's really difficult to catch these hot Jupiter progenitors 'red-handed' during their extremely eccentric phases, so it's very exciting to find a system that goes through this process,” says Smadar Naoz, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study. “I believe this discovery opens the door to a deeper understanding of the birth configuration of the exoplanet system.”

Of course, tracking changes in exoplanets' orbits can take a long time, so Millholland and her colleagues ran computer simulations that allowed them to model how this particular hot Jupiter might have evolved. The team's observations, as well as their simulations of the planet's evolution, support the theory that hot Jupiters may form through high-eccentricity migration, a process in which a planet gradually moves into place over time through extreme changes in its orbit.

“It's clear not only from this but from other statistical studies that high eccentricity migration should explain some of the hot Jupiters,” Millholland said. “This system shows how incredibly diverse exoplanets can be. They are mysterious other worlds that can have wild orbits that tell a story about how they got that way and where they're going. For this planet, its journey isn't quite over yet.”

For more informations

Astronomers discover a highly eccentric planet on its way to becoming a hot Jupiter
A hot Jupiter progenitor on a supereccentric retrograde orbit

The post “Is this how a hot Jupiter is formed?” first appeared on Universe Today.

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Proof that Sandra Bullock's type has at all times been virtually magical

Proof that Sandra Bullock's style has always been practically magical

Bullock's career, of course, was a full-blown whirlwind. The East Carolina University graduate jumped from the success of “Speed” to “While You Were Sleeping,” “The Net,” “The Jury,” “Second Chance,” “The Magic Sisters,” “Miss Congeniality,” “The Whole Lotta Thing” and overall rom-com queen.

“They give it to about six people, and we share the titles of 'Girls Next Door' and 'America's Sweetheart,'” she joked to Cosmopolitan in 2003. “We literally have to call each other and ask who wants it for that week. Like, 'I have a movie to promote, so you have to give me the 'Sweetheart' label or I'm not going to get people who want to see my movie.'” Julie [Roberts]come on, do something daring. I need the title this week!'”

When asked about her goals for the future, she told the magazine: “If I still feel comfortable in my own skin in front of the camera in a few years, that's great. But otherwise I still have to produce.”

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Dexcom shares plunge greater than 30% after firm cuts fiscal 12 months forecast

Dexcom shares plunge more than 30% after company cuts fiscal year forecast

The Dexcom logo is visible on the smartphone screen and in the background.

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Shares of Dexcom The stock plunged more than 35% in extended trading Thursday after the diabetes management company reported disappointing second-quarter sales and issued weak guidance.

This is how the company performed:

  • Earnings per share: 43 cents adjusted against 39 cents expected by LSEG
  • Revenue: USD 1 billion compared to USD 1.04 billion expected by LSEG

Dexcom's revenue increased 15% from the same period last year ($871.3 million). The company reported net income of $143.5 million, up from $115.9 million in the same period last year.

For the third quarter, Dexcom expects revenue between $975 million and $1 billion to “account for certain one-time items impacting seasonality in 2024,” the press release said. Dexcom updated its full-year guidance and expects revenue between $4 billion and $4.05 billion, down from the $4.20 billion to $4.35 billion it had forecast last quarter.

“While Dexcom advanced several key strategic initiatives in the second quarter, our execution did not meet our high standards,” said Kevin Sayer, CEO of Dexcom, in the press release. “We have a unique opportunity to serve millions more customers around the world with our differentiated product portfolio, and we are taking actions to improve our execution and best position ourselves for continued long-term growth.”

Dexcom offers a range of tools such as continuous glucose monitors for patients diagnosed with diabetes. In March, the company announced its new The over-the-counter CGM called Stelo has been cleared for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Stelo is designed for patients with type 2 diabetes who do not use insulin, and Dexcom announced Thursday that it will officially launch in August.

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WUWT Premium Options – What’s Up With Them?

WUWT Premium Features – What’s Up With Them?

Having run this website for almost 20 years now, the financial situation combined with inflation and everything else forced us to switch to a new model to keep this website active. We have never charged for content, preferring to use advertising to keep us going. However, since Google AdWords banned us a few years ago for content they didn't like, we have not been able to generate any significant income from advertising.

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WNBA secures “monumental” media take care of Disney, Amazon and NBCU

WNBA secures “monumental” media deal with Disney, Amazon and NBCU

  • Alexa Philippou, ESPNJuly 24, 2024, 6:32 p.m. ET

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    • He previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
    • A graduate of Stanford University and a native of Baltimore with additional experience at the Dallas Morning News, the Seattle Times and the Cincinnati Enquirer

The WNBA announced a new 11-year media rights deal on Wednesday that includes partnerships with Disney, Amazon Prime Video and new rights holder NBCUniversal.

The deal is worth about $2.2 billion, or $200 million a year, a source told ESPN, but future agreements with additional partners could bring the league's total media deals to just under $3 billion.

“The partnership with Disney, Amazon and NBCU marks a monumental chapter in the history of the WNBA and clearly demonstrates the significant increase in value and historic interest in women's basketball,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a statement. “These agreements enable the league to continue to build a long-term and sustainable growth model for the future of women's basketball and women's sports that will benefit WNBA players, teams and fans.”

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The Athletic was the first newspaper to report on the value of the deal.

According to a press release, Disney – which owns majority of ESPN – Amazon and NBCU will show more than 125 regular-season and playoff games each season, including at least 25 regular-season games on Disney platforms, 50 on NBCU platforms and 30 on Prime Video. Disney will distribute the games on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 and stream them on the company's new direct-to-consumer service; NBCU will distribute them on NBC, USA Network and Peacock; and Amazon will distribute them on Prime Video.

Disney will broadcast two first-round playoff series per year, with NBCU and Prime each broadcasting one series, while semifinals and finals will alternate. Disney will broadcast eight semifinal series and five finals, and Prime and NBCU will each broadcast seven semifinals and three finals.

Disney will continue to broadcast the WNBA All-Star events and the WNBA Draft, and Prime will continue to be the home of the Commissioner's Cup championship game.

The WNBA also currently has contracts with CBS and ION that, if renegotiated, could generate at least $60 million in additional revenue and increase the league's total media contracts to six times the current ones.

According to one source, the figures for the new agreements do not include production costs or marketing obligations, which is the case with the figures related to the media contracts for the NWSL ($240 million over four years with four partners) and the MLS ($2.5 billion over 10 years with Apple).

The partners also agreed to review the rights fees after three years and, if necessary, reassess them to ensure fair value, a source added.

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Tire mud magnet to seize microplastic air pollution from electrical autos

Tire dust magnet to capture microplastic pollution from electric vehicles

A British startup is installing electrostatic tire dust collection machines on a fleet of electric delivery vans in London to reduce the world's second-largest tire consumption.largest source microplastic pollution.

When cars drive, the friction between tires and the road surface releases tiny rubber particles that end up in the air, water, and even our bodies. Tires contain a number of toxic chemicals that, when they come into contact with connected to cancer, lung disease and even mass extinction of river salmon.

“We are all aware of the exhaust emissions from cars, but the enormous scale of tire pollution has largely gone unnoticed,” Hanson Cheng, co-founder and CEO of The Tire Collective, told TNW.

Cheng founded The Tyre Collective in 2020 together with Siobhan Anderson and Hugo Richardson. The team founded the company from a master's research project at Imperial College in London.

The founders of The Tyre Collective: Siobhan Anderson (left), Hugo Richardson and Hanson Cheng. Image credit: The Tyre CollectiveA picture of Tyre Collective founders Siobhan Anderson, Hugo Richardson and Hanson Cheng

“In our research, we found that almost nothing was being done to curb tire pollution,” Cheng said. “It was like an invisible problem that no one was talking about.”

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The Tire Collective has built the first device that captures tire dust at its source. The machine, about the size of a toaster, attaches to the chassis of a vehicle, just behind the steering wheel. As a car drives, tire dust flows through the device, where it is captured by a series of metal plates.

“We found that tire particles become electrostatically charged due to friction with the road,” Cheng explained. “So we tried to pass a negative charge through the metal plates to naturally attract the particles. It worked.”

A picture of someone comparing the different amounts of tire pollution created in a dayThe box on the left weighs 336 g and shows how much tyre dust London's longest bus route produces in a day. Scientists estimate that around 6.1 million tonnes of tyre dust enter our atmosphere and waterways every year. Image credit: The Tyre CollectiveA picture of someone comparing the different amounts of tire pollution created in a day

The patent-pending technology can capture up to 60% of particles from car tires. Once captured, they can be processed into a range of products such as shoe soles, rubber mats, inks and dyes. The machine needs to be cleaned at least once a week, but the company says it is working on a more convenient way to store the particles.

In March, the EU adopted the world's first regulatory framework to combat tyre pollution – a wake-up call for tyre manufacturers and carmakers to clean up their acts. It was also the market incentive The Tyre Collective had been waiting for.

Spurred on by tightening regulations, the company is now testing its technology in a fleet of electric delivery vans owned by London-based startup HIVED. The two-month trial will help The Tyre Collective refine its machine and prepare it for market launch, with the company being supported by a $2 million government grant.

A picture of an HIVED employee explaining to the rest of the team how to empty the machines when they are full.A HIVED employee shows electric van drivers where to empty the tyre dust collector when it is full. Image credit: The Tyre CollectiveA picture of an HIVED employee explaining to the rest of the team how to empty the machines when they are full.

For companies like HIVED, the technology offers the opportunity to make their fleets more environmentally friendly beyond the tailpipe.

“For us, fully electric deliveries are a starting point, not the end goal,” HIVED co-founder Murvah Iqbal told TNW. “We are aiming for zero-emission mobility.”

The Tyre Collective's machine is not a panacea. Ultimately, we need to drive less, walk more and invest in cleaner modes of transport alongside technological solutions.

Nevertheless, Cheng believes the device could soon become standard equipment in all vehicles, similar to how catalytic converters, which convert toxic exhaust gases into less toxic pollutants, are now required for all gasoline-powered cars.

“It’s not perfect, but it’s a start,” he said.

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Sonya Massey's son tells how he discovered she was killed by a police officer

Sonya Massey's Son Shares How He Found Out His Mother Was Shot By An Illinois Cop (VIDEO)

Sonya Massey called the Illinois police because she thought someone was trying to break into her house. But her plea for help and protection ended with Sonya losing her life on the kitchen floor. Now her son Malachi Hill, breaks his silence about how he learned that a police officer fatally shot her.

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Sonya’s son Malachi Hill speaks out

Speaking to the press, including Fox Illinois, Malachi said police never contacted him about his mother's fatal shooting. Instead, he received a call from HSHS St. John's Hospital, whose staff told him Sonya Massey had been shot in the eye and the bullet exited her neck.

Sonya Massey's son said the hospital did not tell him WHO did it, but kept repeating that “someone” shot her.

“But they never wanted to tell me who shot my mother. And I think I was the first to find out. I had to tell my grandmother myself. That's all I can say,” Malachi said.

As previously reported, Sonya's father recently expressed similar sentiments to his grandson on “CBS Mornings.” James Wilburn said he was never told that a deputy was involved in the shooting. “We thought she had been killed by the intruder or someone else on the street and they just went in and found her body,” he said. In addition, Wilburn said there is even a story that he inflicted the gunshot wound on himself.

This is what happened to Sonya Massey

As Justin Carter of TSR Investigates previously reported, the 36-year-old died on July 6 in Springfield, Illinois. Bodycam footage showed the moment two police officers arrived at Sonya's home and she invited them into her living room and warned them not to harm her.

After speaking with them in the living room, Sonya went to the kitchen to serve a pot of boiling water. One of the police officers, Officer Sean P. Graysoncaused the mood in the room to escalate when he shouted at Sonya to put down the pot or she would be shot in the face.

Sonya Massey apologized several times, but Grayson pulled the trigger and shot her three times.

About 31 minutes after she called 911 at 12:50 a.m., a bullet struck Massey in the face. At 1:47 a.m., doctors at the hospital pronounced her dead. In bodycam footage released earlier this week, one of the officers can be seen calling Massey a “bitch” who was “crazy.”

Officer Grayson has since been fired from the police force and faces five charges, including three counts of first-degree murder. The 30-year-old has pleaded not guilty, according to CNN.

Watch Justin Carter analyze Sonya's family's fight for justice in the latest episode of TSR Investigates below.

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