KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The detention officer charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Wyandotte County inmate knelt on the man’s back for longer than a minute, court records showed Thursday.

A “statement of facts” affidavit from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation indicated that Deputy Richard Fatherley had placed his left leg on the lower part of 50-year-old Charles Adair’s back inside his cell the evening of July 5. Adair later died, and Fatherley was charged with murder days later after the death was ruled a homicide .

The court document released Thursday described Adair as having erratic behavior throughout the day, yelling profanities, throwing himself out of his wheelchair and even exposing himself in front of deputies.

Court records showed that Adair had complica

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