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Josh Harris is the owner of local Tacoma business Integrity Construction Group
He posted $100,000 bond each for Officers Christopher Burbank, 35, Matthew Collins, 38, and Timothy Rankine, 32, Friday
Harris said he didn t want the highly decorated veterans to be stuck behind bars over Memorial Day weekend
He said he had worked with the cops on multiple occasions and they sometimes patrolled the area around his firm but does not know the officers personally
All three cops were charged with first-degree manslaughter, while Burbank and Collins were also charged with second-degree murder
Ellis, a 33-year-old black father-of-two, died on March 3 2020 during an arrest as he was walking home from a convenience store with a snack
Three Tacoma officers have been charged in the death of a Black man who died as a restraint was performed on him in March 2020, Washington State Attorney
May 28 More from the series Decision in the police death of Manuel Ellis More than a year after Manuel Ellis died in police custody, the attorney general charged three officers in his death Thursday, May 27. Expand All The Tacoma officers charged in the death of Manuel Ellis bailed out of jail Friday following their first appearance in Superior Court. The Washington State .