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In Our View: Case shows need, challenge of police reform The Columbian
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The quest for justice in the death of Manuel Ellis while in the custody of Tacoma police highlights the need for police reform throughout Washington. It also illuminates the difficulty in enacting such reform.
Criminal charges were filed last week against three officers 15 months after Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, was killed. During that time, multiple agencies bungled investigations into how Ellis died, with inquiries languishing even as protests sparked by video of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis took place in cities across the country.
Gov. Jay Inslee rightly ordered the Washington State Patrol to take over the Ellis case last year. Findings were delivered to the office of Attorney General Bob Ferguson in November, and Ferguson opted to expand the investigation.
Biden Administration ICE Contracts Encourage Forced Labor
A contract signed in April with the detention facility in Port Isabel, Texas, continues $1-a-day wages for those detained.
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Workers in the kitchen of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, September 10, 2019
Instead of attacking President Joe Biden for his immigration policy, Fox News pundits should be praising his administration for keeping the gears of the U.S. deportation machine well greased. Within a week of Bidenâs executive order in January purporting to rein in for-profit prisons, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) quietly announced it would be soliciting bids for yet another especially lucrative âIndefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantityâ contract for its detention facility in Port Isabel, Texas. Not only that, but ICE under Trump and Biden has been adding new language encouraging the prisons to exploit those detained,
Attorney General charges two officers with Second-Degree Murder and a third with First-Degree Manslaughter TACOMA Today the Washington Attorney General filed felony charges against three Tacoma Police Department officers involved in the homicide of Manuel Ellis. The Attorney General charged Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins with Second-Degree Murder and Timothy Rankine