WYANDOTTE COUNTY, KS – Charles L. Adair was a 50-year-old Black man. He was arrested on July 4 on misdemeanor traffic warrants. By the night of July 5, he was bloodied and dead inside the Wyandotte County jail.
The autopsy details how a jail cop violently dug his knee into Adair’s back and killed him. Adair suffocated, his ribs were broken, and his chest was fractured. There was bleeding in his back and shoulders. His eyes showed the telltale hemorrhages of suffocation.
The coroner ruled his death a homicide caused by “mechanical asphyxia.”…