FILE - A sign is displayed on May 27, 2021, at a memorial in Tacoma, Wash., where Manuel "Manny" Ellis died on March 3, 2020, after he was restrained by police officers. Timothy Rankine, one of the Washington state police officers cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of Ellis — a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained facedown on a sidewalk as he pleaded for breath — is taking steps to sue local and state officials for $94 million over alleged defamation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) FILE PHOTO
