Jimmy Dwayne Farris

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."