Manuel "Manny" Ellis was walking home from a convenience store on the night of March 3, 2020, when he was encountered by two Tacoma police officers. They got into an altercation that left Ellis dead on a street corner along the border of South Tacoma and unincorporated Pierce County.
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Reporters from The Walk Home podcast, covering the life and death of Manny Ellis, reflect on the final episode and the end of the project.
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In the final episode of The Walk Home podcast, KNKX examines the recently unsealed internal affairs interviews with the Tacoma Police officers involved the night Manuel "Manny" Ellis died.
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Nearly four years after the death of Manny Ellis in Tacoma police custody, Mayor Victoria Woodards reflects on the city's response during an interview for The Walk Home, the award-winning podcast from KNKX and The Seattle Times.
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The vote Tuesday came nearly four years after Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died in Tacoma facedown with his hands and feet cuffed together behind him.
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Democratic Sen. Yasmin Trudeau has sponsored the bill, saying she doesn’t want anyone else to experience the “dehumanization” Ellis faced before his death.
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Tacoma City Council approved a police union contract the same day the city's police chief cleared the three officers recently acquitted in the March 2020 death of Manny Ellis.
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Three Tacoma police officers involved in the March 2020 death of Manny Ellis agreed to resign and the department cleared them of wrongdoing under policies that were in effect at the time. The city agreed to pay each of them $500,000.
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The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Tacoma police officers violated federal law when they beat, Tasered and hogtied Manuel "Manny" Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, before his death in March 2020, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington.
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KNKX reporters Mayowa Aina and Jared Brown discuss reaction to Thursday's verdict acquitting Tacoma Police Officers Matthew Collins, Christopher Burbank, and Timothy Rankine of all charges related to the 2020 killing of Manny Ellis.
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A jury found three Tacoma police officers not guilty Thursday in the March 2020 killing of Manuel "Manny" Ellis. The trial was the first test of a state law making it easier to charge officers for using deadly force.
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The trial of the three Tacoma police officers charged with the murder and manslaughter of Manny Ellis is now in the hands of the jury. A new episode of 'The Walk Home' podcast looks at the trial and takes a deeper look at the defense’s strategy
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Tacoma officers trial: Prosecution rests, attempt to dismiss charges fails and the community ralliesProsecutors rested their case on Wednesday against the Tacoma police officers charged with killing Manny Ellis. A motion to dismiss the charges was denied and a rally outside the courthouse called for more access to the hearings.