Kansas deputy charged with 2nd Degree Murder of Black man with "multiple traffic violation" warrants
New, disturbing details have emerged about an incident that got a Kansas sheriff's deputy charged with second-degree murder for the death of a Black man in custody, reported The Guardian on Friday — with the death bearing a striking resemblance to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis five years ago.
According to the report, "Richard Fatherly was charged last month with second-degree murder and an alternative count of involuntary manslaughter in Charles Adair’s 5 July death in the Wyandotte county detention center in Kansas City, Kansas. Adair had been arrested one day before his death on misdemeanor warrants for failure to appear on multiple traffic violations."
According to civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Adair's family, the newly revealed records show that "Charles Adair was handcuffed, lying on his stomach with a severely injured leg, and posed no threat when a deputy pressed a knee into his back, resulting in his death."
Adair was held in that position for one minute and 26 seconds, immediately after being wheeled from the infirmary to his cell.
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