Police who hog-tied, put spit-hood on Manny Ellis are going on trial for his death
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 19, 2023
Sep. 19, 2023, 3:12 PM EDT / Source: The Associated Press
By The Associated Press
TACOMA, Wash. — Jury selection started Monday in the trial of three Tacoma police officers charged in the death of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man who was tackled, punched, shocked with a stun gun and held face down on a sidewalk in March 2020, two months before George Floyd met a similar fate.
Officers Christopher Burbank . . .
