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After the forensic audio expert, jurors heard from a former pizza delivery driver who filmed Tacoma police engage with Ellis on March 3, 2020.
Seth Cowden, a former pizza delivery driver in Tacoma, took to the witness stand on Tuesday afternoon. Cowden, now age 22, was returning to the pizza store on March 3, 2020, when he approached the intersection of South 96th Street and Ainsworth Avenue.
He saw a Tacoma police car stopped at the intersection and saw Ellis walking near the car like a "casual stroll," Cowden said.
The officers restrained Ellis and put him in a kind of head lock, he added. Cowden testified that he never saw Ellis hit the police car, nor strike or punch either of the officers.
“First word that comes to mind would be just panic,” Cowden said of Ellis’ reaction during the altercation. “I know that he was the one I could hear scream the most. I could tell the difference between the officer and Manuel Ellis screaming just cause his was out of fear and was more sporadic, where the officers were giving orders, basically.”
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