The defense continued their examination of a police use of force expert in the trial of three Tacoma police officers charged in Manuel Ellis’ death on Monday. Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died in Tacoma police custody following a confrontation with officers on the night of March 3, 2020. Three Tacoma police officers, Matthew Collins, Christopher Burbank and Timothy Rankine, face charges in his death. Chris Nielsen is a training sergeant for the Renton Police Department. Nielsen is also a licensed attorney and previously worked in the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office for six years prior to becoming an officer. During his previous testimony, Nielsen said he found all force used by the officers against Manuel Ellis to be appropriate. On Monday, he provided more clarity as to how he came to that conclusion, citing that he found the officers’ accounts of the confrontation between themselves and Ellis to be credible based on other objective evidence, including eyewitness videos and photographs collected at the scene. Read more: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/death-of-manuel-ellis/trial-death-manuel-ellis-tacoma-officers-resumes-monday/281-0394d37d-f8f0-49d0-a3b8-853b83a0fac5