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FILE - A photo of Charles Adair, a man killed when a deputy kneeled on his back in a Kansas jail, is displayed Sunday, Sept. 23, 2025, at a news conference held by his family and their attorneys at Friendship Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Heather Hollingsworth, File)

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – A white Kansas sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the death of a Black jail inmate shoved his knee into the cuffed man’s back for one minute and 26 seconds after he was wheeled back to his cell from the infirmary, newly released court records show.

Richard Fatherly was charged last month with second-degree murder and an alternative count of involuntary manslaughter in Charles Adair’s July 5 death in the Wyandotte Count

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