Manuel "Manny" Ellis was walking home from a convenience store on the night of March 3, 2020, when he was encountered by two Tacoma police officers. They got into an altercation that left Ellis dead on a street corner along the border of South Tacoma and unincorporated Pierce County.
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Erika Schultz/Pool Photo via The Seattle TimesWhen a police officer does something wrong, one option is decertification – taking away their badge and gun, for good. But there are some hurdles. -
Mayowa Aina/KNKX130 organizations and individuals in Pierce County have signed a letter requesting a federal investigation into Tacoma Police Department for the use of excessive force.
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Guns, taxes, policing and octopus farming are among the areas they cover. -
Timothy Rankine, a former Tacoma police officer acquitted in the death of Manny Ellis, alleges city leaders and state prosecutors ruined his reputation with false allegations of criminal and racist misconduct. -
Christopher “Shane” Burbank has resigned days after being hired as a Thurston County Sheriff's deputy. One of three Tacoma officers charged in the 2020 killing of Manuel Ellis, Burbank was acquitted of all charges in December. -
Reporters from The Walk Home podcast, covering the life and death of Manny Ellis, reflect on the final episode and the end of the project. -
In the final episode of The Walk Home podcast, KNKX examines the recently unsealed internal affairs interviews with the Tacoma Police officers involved the night Manuel "Manny" Ellis died. -
Nearly four years after the death of Manny Ellis in Tacoma police custody, Mayor Victoria Woodards reflects on the city's response during an interview for The Walk Home, the award-winning podcast from KNKX and The Seattle Times. -
The vote Tuesday came nearly four years after Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died in Tacoma facedown with his hands and feet cuffed together behind him. -
Democratic Sen. Yasmin Trudeau has sponsored the bill, saying she doesn’t want anyone else to experience the “dehumanization” Ellis faced before his death. -
Tacoma City Council approved a police union contract the same day the city's police chief cleared the three officers recently acquitted in the March 2020 death of Manny Ellis. -
Three Tacoma police officers involved in the March 2020 death of Manny Ellis agreed to resign and the department cleared them of wrongdoing under policies that were in effect at the time. The city agreed to pay each of them $500,000.
