KVI’s John Carlson says Washington Attorney General, Bob Ferguson, has failed a second time in pursuing a criminal case involving Tacoma Police for allegedly violating the rights of two men under criminal suspicion. The latest cases is the Tacoma jury acquitting three TPD officers in the death of Manuel Ellis when he was restrained in March of 2020 and Ellis died after the arrest.
GUEST: attorney Anne Bremner, explains how her client, TPD officer Timothy Rankine–along with two other TPD officers–was acquitted by a jury. Bremner says the jurors decided that the witnesses for the prosecution weren’t believable, leading to the not guilty verdict. Bremner says the Manny Ellis quote “I can’t breath” was inappropriately compared by the prosecution to the George Floyd murder case. Bremner concludes: the jury decided that the 3 officers were reacting to Manny Ellis’s conduct and not Ellis’s race.
