A 50-year-old man died in the Wyandotte County Jail after a sheriff’s officer knelt on the man’s back, KCUR has learned, causing asphyxia in a death ruled a homicide.
Charles Adair, who was in jail on misdemeanor traffic warrants, was being moved to a cell on July 5 when he had an altercation with either one or several guards “which resulted in one of the officers kneeling on the decedent’s back,” according to the coroner’s report obtained by KCUR.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation issued a statement late Friday saying Adair’s death was due to complications of “mechanical asphyxia,” defined as “when an object or a physical force stops you from breathing” or “body positions that may prevent you from breathing.”…