Attorneys for the family of Charles Adair, 50, whose death was ruled a homicide, saw body camera footage of his death Tuesday. It showed Wyandotte County deputy sheriff Richard Fatherley kneeling on Adair’s back for a minute and a half, they said.

The family of a 50-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man who was killed in the Wyandotte County jail called Tuesday night for law enforcement to publicly release the bodycam footage that shows the moments leading up to his death. They also want the case to be tried before a judge from outside of Wyandotte County.

Leading cries of “Let’s be fair for Charles Adair!,” Ben Crump, a national civil rights attorney, compared Adair’s death — which happened inside the jail — to that of George Floyd’s public killing at the hands of a white law enforcement

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