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NAACP leader reflects on not guilty verdicts in death of Manuel Ellis

caption: Justice for Manny Ellis reads a handwritten sign as a crowd gathered at the intersection of 11th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, after a jury found three Tacoma police officers not guilty in the trial over the death of 33-year-old Manuel Ellis, on Thursday, December 21, 2023, in Tacoma.
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Justice for Manny Ellis reads a handwritten sign as a crowd gathered at the intersection of 11th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, after a jury found three Tacoma police officers not guilty in the trial over the death of 33-year-old Manuel Ellis, on Thursday, December 21, 2023, in Tacoma.
KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer

A three-month-long trial against the Tacoma police officers charged with killing Manuel Ellis came to an end yesterday. KUOW's Angela King talked to NAACP Alaska Oregon Washington State Area Conference officer Sheley Secrest about the outcome.

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