The trial for three Tacoma, Washington, police officers, Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins, and Timothy Rankine, who were charged in the death of a 33-year-old Black man, is set to begin.
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Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday, and opening statements are expected to start Oct. 2 in Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma.charged in the death of a 33-year-old Black man who was tackled, punched, shocked with a Taser and held face-down on a sidewalk in March 2020, just two months before George Floyd met a similar fate.
Burbank and Collins said Ellis tried to get into a stranger's car and then attacked the officers when they confronted him. But witnesses say the officers jumped out of their car as Ellis walked by and knocked him to the ground. Several witnesses recorded the encounter with their cell phones as they screamed for the officers to stop, the document said.
"Collins then moves in towards Ellis and brings his weight down onto him," the document said."With Ellis underneath him, Collins begins striking Ellis’s head with his fist. Meanwhile, Burbank draws his Taser gun and walks close in towards Ellis. Collins can be seen on S.M.’s video striking Ellis’s head four times, with Ellis screaming after each strike."
The officers then wrapped a hobble restraint device around Ellis' legs and linked it to his handcuffs behind his back in a"hog-tie" position while he remained in the prone position. They also pulled a spit-hood over his head. After the hobble was applied, he stopped moving, the statement said.Ellis was pronounced dead at the scene.
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