Washington state AG files murder charges against officers in Black mans death
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Source: Associated Press
Photo: Tacoma News Tribune
SEATTLE (AP) The Washington state attorney general on Thursday filed murder charges against two police officers in the death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died after telling the Tacoma officers who were restraining him that he couldn’t breathe.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement he charged officers Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins with second-degree murder and Timothy Rankine with first-degree manslaughter. The charges were filed in Pierce County Superior Court.
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The state Attorney General’s office will announce whether any Tacoma police officers will be charged in the death of Manuel Ellis on Thursday.
Ellis, 33, died in March of last year following an on-camera confrontation with police.
The Pierce County Medical Examiner ruled Ellis’ death a homicide due to a lack of oxygen, and also determined methamphetamine and an enlarged heart also played a contributing role.
Ellis family attorney James Bible said at a February news conference that new information revealed Ellis was “hobbled” by five officers, and may have suffocated in handcuffs from the position of his body, while he told the officers “I can’t breathe.”