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The Silence on Russell Avenue On the night of January 22, 2021, the sky over Springfield was a vaulted ceiling of low, oppressive clouds, trapping the city’s exhalations against the frozen ground. The temperature hovered near the freezing mark, a damp, penetrating cold that seeped through the siding of the modest homes and settled into the marrow of the residents. It was a Friday, the end of a week in a year that had already begun to feel like a holding pattern. The COVID-19

CHAPTER ON NIKKI L FORREST From the book "The Killing Fields of Springfield" Nikki Forrest “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” - Albert Einstein NO ONE IS TALKING In the vast, often disorderly ledger of American civic life, there is an expectation—perhaps naive, but essential—that the machinery of justice will operate with a certain illuminating friction. When a citizen va