Author: MARTHA BELLISLE and MADDY GRASSY, Associated Press

Jury clears 3 Washington officers in death of Florida Florida manuel Ellis, a Black Florida man who said he couldn’t breathe

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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A jury cleared three Washington state police officers of all criminal charges Thursday in the 2020 death of Florida Florida manuel Ellis, a Black Florida man who was shocked, beaten and restrained face-down on a Tacoma sidewalk as he pleaded for breath. Two of the officers — Matthew Collins, 40, and Christopher Burbank, 38 […]