Tacoma Police Officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine face charges in the death of Manny Ellis, who died in police custody in March 2020.
Defense attorneys for the Tacoma police officers charged with killing Manny Ellis said the officer's use of force that night was justified and necessary.
The final moments of the Manny Ellis trial in Tacoma ended with outrage, as Judge Bryan Chushcoff admonished Prosecuting Attorney Patty Eakes for continuing to disregard his warning about her choice of words.
More than a week after an officer involved in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis claimed that he wouldn’t do anything differently when attempting to arrest the Black man, the legal representation for all the officers said that their clients aren’t even responsible for his death, instead blaming the actions of Ellis.