The Spotlight: 3 officers cleared in Manuel Ellis' death each receive $500K to leave Tacoma police 

Defunding the Police is pretty expensive

Bob Fergusons political ploy just cost taxpayers more money.

I think it’s twisted thinking at play here. The men were exonerated, but can’t, after all this negative publicity, be expected to go back out into the community and work without a backlash. As I see it, the 500k is compensation for losing their careers.

City government has no balls

Not guilty by a jury. Good for them! Hope those men move out of that state and start anew with the opportunity that they have been given.

1) These "activists" have zero sense of community responsibility or social integrity with their neighbors. And that TPD caved to the pressure shows both their weakness and the reason for people's unwillingness to jump into what was aleady a thankless job made even more difficult by corrupt politicians and social justice wackjobs. 2) The person who stole from these volunteer community servicemen and women either had zero scruples or was looking for something to pay for their next drug fix. 3) I agree with Lindsey that this well-intentioned effort to recycle old and damaged cell phones is not working as advertised and providing an indirect and unintentional incentive for theft of personal communication devices. At up to $120 each, a savvy pickpocket or quick lifter could net $10,000 in a week for stolen phones. 4) It's not at all surprising that there are stalkers and kidnappers on the loose, considering the hit police departments have taken over the past five years. Politicians hamstring them with legislation and then get people to denounce them as incompetent or corrupt for their legal inability while making big bank from the campaign donations those same people are suckered into giving and smearing those who oppose them for enabling or even perpetrating said crimes. 5) Good on this mother, though efforts of this type rarely come to any fruition because of two factors: The drivers was innocent of intent and distracted or guilty of intent but savvy enough to remove any identifying marks. 6) People should have the wherewithal to avoid sex at all until after they get married because laws like this are ineffective. Often the result of a consensual one-night stand by lonely individuals with total strangers, the violated usually can't remember the violator's face or name because they never expect to see them again and don't commit such details to memory. You can't regulate the behavior of people who refuse to be regulated. 7) Liberal-run states and jurisdictions have little awareness of the causes for homelessness, of which there are many: Domestic violence, substance abuse and mental illness are just a few. They have even less desire to find meaningful solutions because perpetual issues mean perpetual income from those who are affected but either too ignorant of or too poisoned against the other side to look elsewhere for effective solutions.

That is heartbreaking!

Ellis's family got 4 millions .....hypocrites

500k each????? Damn i need a new career

Revelation 6:10 "They called out in a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" NIV

With 500,000 in hand, start a new life in Montana or any other state, but WA . With what happened here, no way would we stay in WA.

If she used find my phone to find her phone then that means it was still turned on.

Move down here to my beloved home State of Texas.

336 people relocated in an entire year. They spent 25 million dollars...do the math how much is that per homeless person.

Blood money 💰 ?

So you have to pay off murdering police officers to get them to leave the force and they just go and apply for another within 20 mi of where they should have been fired not paid off

So the city of Tacoma rewards the three officers instead they should be barred from all law enforcement work. Officer Chris Burbank just got hired on as Thurston County Deputy sheriff what if it happens again with another black man or someone else.

steal equipment . from Emegency service . WTF

Stealthing isn’t rape. Sorry.

Wish I could 500k to not work as a corrupt cop

It’s safer an cleaner in Russia

Get rich being a cop

Back in 2012 Tacoma PD killed one of my soldiers a young black sergeant (E5 type) on the day that he was PCS’ing. He was trying to go say goodbye to his girlfriend when does car that was driving by and I have a history of pulling the trigger jumped on his car and shot this young black US soldier. What make matters worse is what they did next they tried to paint the picture of the soldier as being a thug when they didn’t even know the soldier. Tacoma PD HAS A HISTORY OF KILLING YOUNG BLACK MEN, AND OR TRYING TO FRAME THEM WHEN THEY ALL THEY TRYING TO DO IS DELIVER PAPERS……..

half a mil to leave?... ok....I was never really very on board for the whole defunding the cops thing even though i don't like cops ,i recognize the overall job they have. that being said, if we can pinpoint bs nonsense funding like this and stop it that'd be great.

FTPD 😊

A Fox news channel defending dirty cop...im surprised...Nott...

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