Manuel Ellis was tasered, choked, struck, handcuffed, hogtied, and sat and kneeled on.
SEATTLE: Opening statements on Tuesday launched the Pierce County Superior Court trial of three Tacoma, Washington state, police officers charged over the death by suffocation of a Black pedestrian in March 2020, reported German news agency .
Eyewitness videos of the officers struggling with Ellis, and a nearby home surveillance camera that captured audio of Ellis’ pleas that he couldn’t breathe, are expected to be central to the prosecution’s case. The Pierce County Medical Examiner ruled Ellis’ death a homicide. Kent Liu from the Washington state Attorney-General’s Office challenged the truthfulness of Collins and Burbank’s statements to detectives that Ellis was the aggressor. Instead, Liu said, they assaulted and sat on Ellis without justification.
He said Ellis was “screaming, violent and extremely high on methamphetamine”. Purtzer said the officers’ actions were justified and they should be found not guilty.A jury of eight men and four women was seated Monday afternoon. The panel includes six white men, three white women, an Asian man, a Black man and a Black woman.
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