Three Tacoma, Washington, policemen were acquitted of homicide charges in the 2020 killing of Manuel Ellis, a Black man whose dying pleas for breath during a struggle with officers bore grim parallels to the murder of George Floyd weeks later.
Jury deliberations in the murder trial of Manuel ‘Manny’ Ellis restarted Monday. Court officials say an alternate juror stepped in when another juror had a family emergency, forcing the deliberations to restart.