A jury has cleared three Washington state police officers of all criminal charges in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained facedown on a Tacoma sidewalk as he pleaded for breath.
People in general just want to believe that the police have a hard job and want to blame the people they murder. They will look for any excuse to give them a pass.
It’s baffling that the jurors saw reasonable doubt when all the witness and video evidence showed otherwise.
People in general just want to believe that the police have a hard job and want to blame the people they murder. They will look for any excuse to give them a pass.
It doesn’t help that the judge allowed all the information on his previous charges and sad past to be repeated over and over.
Americans have a fetish for punishing ex-criminals.