The trial for three Tacoma, Washington, officers charged in a Black man’s death begins this week. Manuel Ellis died hogtied, handcuffed and pleading “Can’t breathe” nearly three months before George Floyd’s murder sparked worldwide protests against police brutality. The trial is the first under a 5-year-old Washington state law designed to make it easier to prosecute police who wrongfully use deadly force.
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Text messages obtained by The Associated Press show Louisiana's governor was informed within hours of the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene that troopers engaged in “a violent, lengthy struggle” that ended with the Black motorist’s death.