Kansas City Manager Brian Platt was suspended with pay last week, a day after a jury ordered Kansas City to pay more than $900,000 to its former communications director. Hear the allegations against Platt by city officials and the response from Mayor Quinton Lucas.

Nomin Ujiyediin sat down with KCUR's Savanah Hawley-Bates to learn why former communications director Chris Hernandez alleges he was forced out of his job for resisting Platt's suggestion that it was acceptable to lie to the media.

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Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love and KCUR Studios, and edited by Luke Martin and C.J. Janovy.

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