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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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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.
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Attorneys for Washington state honed in on inconsistencies in the officers' version of events. Defense attorneys focused on the threat Manuel "Manny" Ellis allegedly presented to officers and their claims that he died of a drug overdose.
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Attorneys are generally barred from introducing individual’s prior “bad acts.” But the question of how Manny Ellis’ struggle with Tacoma police began is big enough that the judge is allowing defense attorneys some leeway when it comes to the victim in this case.
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Dam operator Electron Hydro and its CEO will pay $1 million in fees and restitution for illegal use and spilling of artificial turf and crumb rubber in the Puyallup River. The Puyallup tribe says the penalty is inadequate.
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A Pierce County judge has issued an arrest warrant for a Tacoma woman who has repeatedly refused to seek treatment for tuberculosis. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department says she could be detained at any point starting Friday, a move necessary to protect the community.
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Electron Hydro LLC, which operates a hydroelectric dam near Mount Rainier National Park, and its chief operating officer have each pleaded guilty to a single criminal count in connection with a spill of field turf into the Puyallup River in 2020. The company will also pay $1 million for projects to restore salmon habitat.
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The City of Tacoma must release unredacted police interviews to state prosecutors, who have charged three Tacoma officers with murder and manslaughter in the death of Manuel Ellis. That’s according to a judge who rejected an argument made last month by the city and attorneys for one of those officers that the records shouldn’t fall under a subpoena.
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The City of Tacoma is fighting to keep records from a police department internal affairs investigation out of the hands of prosecutors as three officers await trial for murder and manslaughter in the death of Manuel Ellis.
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The three Tacoma Police officers charged in the death of Manuel Ellis pleaded not guilty Friday in Pierce County Superior Court.The men, clad in orange…