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Kansas deputy charged with murder knelt on inmate for 1 minute and 26 seconds
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KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A white Kansas sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the death of a Black jail inmate shoved his knee into the cuffed man’s back for one minute and 26 seconds after he was wheeled back to his cell from the infirmary, newly released court records show.
Richard Fatherly was charged last month with second-degree murder and an alternative count of involuntary manslaughter in Charles Adair’s July 5 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.
At the time, Adair’s leg needed to be amputated and was so badly infected that he was taken straight to the hospital, a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent wrote in the affidavit.
Fatherley’s attorney, James Spies, said last month that Adair’s death was “a tragic accident” but was not a result of Fatherley’s actions.