‘Just Like George Floyd.’ Family Wants Tacoma Man Killed by Police Memorialized

‘Just like George Floyd.’ Family wants Tacoma man killed by police memorialized

TACOMA – Manuel Ellis’ mother visits his grave often. She refreshes the flowers and decorates it for the latest holiday, wiping his headstone clean so she can see his name and his face. She says it’s all she has.Marcia Carterpatterson sat in front of a row of news cameras Wednesday in Des Moines with her daughter and her second son to speak about Ellis’ death in police custody in Tacoma and all that has followed. Carterpatterson showed a photo o…

A Five-Year George Floyd Retrospective Lets Us See What Really Happened

It’s been roughly five years since George Floyd’s death, which led to prosecutions that sent Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers to prison for alleged homicide and civil rights violations related to that death—and five years is al...