Police "tased, choked and hogtied" Manuel Ellis over "false perceptions," wrongful death lawsuit says
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The family of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died while being restrained by Tacoma police officers who have since been charged criminally, has filed a federal lawsuit over his death. Attorneys for Ellis' sister, Monet Carter-Mixon, and mother, Marcia Carter, filed the civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Tacoma late Friday against the city of Tacoma, Pierce County and several individual officers.
Neither the city nor the county immediately responded to emails seeking comment.
Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died March 3, 2020, just weeks before George Floyd's death triggered a nationwide reckoning on race and policing. Police stopped him while he was walking home from a convenience store with a box of doughnuts and a bottle of water, the complaint noted.
