KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - The family of 50-year-old Charles Adair stood in the sanctuary of Friendship Baptist Church Tuesday night, demanding transparency. They were there with a legal team that has filed suits in many high-profile deaths of Black people at the hands of police and neighborhood vigilantes.

“Y’all know why George Floyd got so many people saying his name?” attorney Ben Crump asked, then answered. “Because we saw the video.”

Adair died after an altercation with detention officers at the Wyandotte County Jail in Kansas City, Kansas, on July 5. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the agency investigating his death, said Adair had been booked a day prior on warrants related to misdemeanor traffic offenses.

Detention officer Richard Fatherley last week was charged with reckle

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