An affidavit outlines the events leading up to Charles Adair’s death and the KBI investigation that followed. Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Fatherley is charged with second-degree murder.

A sworn affidavit from a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent alleges Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Fatherley kept his knee on Charles Adair’s back for about a minute and a half while deputies tried to subdue him in his cell.

The affidavit says Fatherley is seen on video putting his weight on Adair’s lower back with his knee or leg and pushing down with his left arm on Adair’s left shoulder, while other unnamed deputies held his legs and arms. Adair eventually moved his hands toward an unnamed deputy, who removed his handcuffs. But Adair, who was later pronounced dead, did not mo

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