Brickbat: Prison Medicine

Wyandotte County, Kansas, deputy Richard Fatherley has been charged second degree murder and involuntarily manslaughter after inmate Charles Adair died in custody on July 5, just a day after jailers arrested him on misdemeanor warrants for failing to appear in court on multiple traffic violations. Adair, who suffered from heart disease and liver cirrhosis, clashed with staff as they removed him from his wheelchair in the detention center's infirmary. One officer knelt on Adair's back in a shoulder pin maneuver, breaking his ribs and sternum. Those injuries caused "mechanical asphyxia," blocking his breathing and causing his death, which his autopsy ruled a homicide. Prosecutors declined to say whether it was Fatherley who pinned Adair, but he is the only officer who will be charged.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The disabled want to be treated like everyone else but complain when they're killed for angering armed fee collectors.

[Chumby]

He was wheelchair bound but also recently drove a vehicle? I think the reason for the traffic violations revealed themself.

[MatthewSlyfield]

They make special modifications for cars that replace all the foot controls with hand controls. So yes, a person confined to a wheelchair because they have no use of their legs can drive cars.

[Chumby]

If they are anything like the cripples riding around in motorized carts in department and grocery stores, I think the reason for the traffic violations revealed themself.

[LIBtranslator]

That was for parking the wrong way. Imagine if he'd had a roach in the ashtray! So... what are the odds the killer gets off on a technicality?

[Azathoth!!]

He was not 'wheelchair bound'. He was being treated for a wound on his leg. And the incident occurred as he was being returned to his cell after being treated.

There was some kind of fight and he had to be restrained.

And the officer is cooperating fully.

[AT]

How much you wanna bet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9dQc3srvA