Three officers plead not guilty in Manuel Ellis' restraint death

Five weeks after ex-Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, three Washington state police officers pleaded not guilty Friday in the death of Manuel Ellis, another Black man who pleaded for breath under an officer's knee.

Tacoma police officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine appeared in orange jumpsuits by video conference from the Pierce County Jail as Superior Court Judge Michael Schwartz set bail at $100,000 for each of them. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson charged Burbank and Collins, who are White, with second-degree murder Thursday after witnesses reported that they attacked Ellis without provocation.