{"id":72046,"date":"2026-04-17T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/family-of-us-man-who-died-after-officer-shoved-knee-into-back-sues-police\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:03:54","slug":"family-of-us-man-who-died-after-officer-shoved-knee-into-back-sues-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/family-of-us-man-who-died-after-officer-shoved-knee-into-back-sues-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of US man who died after officer shoved knee into back sues police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Adair relatives urge video to be made public after Kansas officer charged with second-degree murder<\/p>\n<p>Relatives of a man whom investigators determined died after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/03\/kansas-sheriff-deputy-black-inmate-death\">Kansas sheriff\u2019s deputy shoved his knee<\/a> into the cuffed man\u2019s back for a minute and 26 seconds have filed a federal lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for the family of Charles Adair renewed their demand on Friday that video of what happened be released publicly in announcing the wrongful death lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/17\/kansas-man-death-charles-adair\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Adair relatives urge video to be made public after Kansas officer charged with second-degree murder Relatives of a man whom investigators determined died after a Kansas sheriff\u2019s deputy shoved his knee into the cuffed man\u2019s back for a minute and 26 seconds have filed a federal lawsuit. Attorneys for the family of Charles Adair &#8230; <a title=\"Family of US man who died after officer shoved knee into back sues police\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/family-of-us-man-who-died-after-officer-shoved-knee-into-back-sues-police\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Family of US man who died after officer shoved knee into back sues police\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}