On July 5 at 8:30 p.m., 50-year-old Charles Adair received medical care at the Wyandotte County jail infirmary for a preexisting wound on his leg. By 8:37 p.m., he was out cold.
Within those seven minutes, it’s believed that Adair was subject to a common police tactic called “prone restraint,” when an arrested person or inmate is placed face down on the ground so his arms can be pulled back and handcuffed.
But in Adair’s case, the restraint included a deputy kneeling on his back, according to a coroner’s report, which caused “mechanical asphyxia,” and killed him. Adair was pronounced dead at 9:19 p.m., about 40 minutes after being found unresponsive, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation…