MINNEAPOLIS — At the end of March, the Minneapolis Police Department updated its policy manual to ban restraint tactics. According to the Minneapolis Police Department Policy and Procedure Manual, the ...

TACOMA, Wash. — An expert in forensic pathology testified Monday in the ongoing trial of three Tacoma, Washington, police officers charged with the death of Manuel Ellis that Ellis likely would have ...

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department continues to allow deputies to connect detainees’ handcuffs to leg restraints behind their backs – also known as hogtying and maximum restraint – despite the ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — The Washington state House overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that would ban police from hog-tying suspects, a restraint technique that has long drawn concern because of the risk ...

Pierce County deserves a law enforcement agency that shares the community’s values — one that’s a leader, not a follower, and one that’s consistently working to eliminate abuses of authority while ...