On May 27, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed felony charges against three Tacoma Police Department officers for the killing of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man. Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins face second-degree murder, and Timothy Rankine faces first-degree manslaughter.
According to court documents, on March 3, 2020, Ellis spent the evening at his church playing drums and then went home, where he was staying with a friend. Around 11 p.m., Ellis went out to get a snack from a 7-Eleven in South Tacoma. ...