Overview

• Civil-rights attorneys including Ben Crump say they watched body-camera footage of Charles Adair’s final minutes and describe it as horrific.
• The legal team alleges Deputy Richard Fatherley kneeled on Adair’s back for about 1 minute and 24 seconds while deputies tried to remove handcuffs in his cell.
• Fatherley is charged with second-degree murder, was issued a summons for a Nov. 18 court date, and remains on unpaid leave from the sheriff’s office.
• Adair’s family, clergy and the local NAACP are pressing for public release of the video and the full KBI report, and they support assigning a judge from outside Wyandotte County.
• An autopsy ruled the death a homicide from mechanical asphyxia tied to prone restraint, a tactic federal guidance has long warned can impede breathing.