Jimmy Dwayne Farris

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Jimmy Dwayne Farris died after he'd been pulled over by deputies Aaron Pinson, Michael Manley and Mark Wynn. A military police officer, Thomas M. Buchness, was also riding along with deputies when they stopped Farris's pickup truck for allegedly running a red light. Farris pulled into a Taco Bell parking lot where, according to a lawsuit filed by his family, the deputies and Buchness repeatedly sprayed Mace into his' face; threw him onto the tailgate, then onto the parking lot; handcuffed him; ignored his' requests to let him breathe; made nerve strikes to his' limbs, and placed their combined weight on him in a dangerous position. According to Dr. Jane Turner of the St. Louis County Medical Examiner's Office, Farris died from "hypertensive heart disease exacerbated by methamphetamine during exertion in physical altercation."

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Jimmy Dwayne Farris, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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