Kansas deputy charged with murder in the death of a man in custody
Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree said deputy Richard Fatherley has been charged with second-degree murder and an alternative count of involuntary manslaughter in the July 5 death of 50-year-old Charles Adair at the county’s detention center in Kansas City, Kansas. Adair had been arrested one day earlier on misdemeanor warrants for failure to appear on multiple traffic violations.
Dupree provided no details on how the man died, but the autopsy said Adair was being removed from his wheelchair when he got into an altercation with jail staff. According to the autopsy, the altercation ended with one officer kneeling on Adair’s back. In addition to the rib fractures, Adair also sustained a sternal fracture, the autopsy report said.
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The guy was in a wheelchair and these pieces of shit kneeled on his back and broke his ribs until he suffocated to death.
Send these cops to prison forever.
How many guards and how much violent force does it take to restrain a guy in a wheelchair? Bunch of fucking pussies.
You don't become a LEO because you're happy with yourself
We know that the circumstances must be unambiguously evil, for them to charge a pig out of the gate.
The court will find they had no duty of care, conveniently sidestepping res ipsa loquitor to protect their cop buddies.