Tacoma Police

A man who was run over by a Tacoma police car at a street racing event in 2021, spurring protests against police use of force, has been found guilty of felonies.

Timothy Rankine, a former Tacoma police officer acquitted in the death of Manny Ellis, alleges city leaders and state prosecutors ruined his reputation with false allegations of criminal and racist misconduct.

Police said a 61-year-old man was found unresponsive on Thursday at the ICE facility in Tacoma.

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.

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.

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.

City Council Member Jamika Scott is suing the City of Tacoma and several Tacoma police officers stemming from her arrest in January of 2021.

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.

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.

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.