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SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state lawmakers are expected to consider a proposal Monday to prohibit police from hog-tying suspects, nearly four years after Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died facedown with his hands and feet cuffed together behind him in a case that became a touchstone for racial justice demonstrators in the Pacific Northwest. […]
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state lawmakers are expected to consider a proposal Monday to prohibit police from hog-tying suspects, nearly four years after Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died …
Washington state lawmakers will consider a proposal to prohibit police from hog-tying suspects. nearly four years after Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man died facedown with his hands and feet cuffed together behind him. Democratic Sen. Yasmin Trudeau has sponsored the bill, saying she doesn’t want anyone else to experience the “dehumanization” Ellis faced before his death. The measure is set to go before a Senate committee Monday
WA state legislators are expected to consider a proposal to prohibit police from hog-tying suspects after it was alleged that this led to the death of Manuel Ellis in 2021.
Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died facedown with his hands and feet cuffed together behind him in March 2020 in a case that became a touchstone for racial justice demonstrations in the Pacific Northwest.