The Walk Home Podcast | KNKX Public Radio
A new podcast from the team that brought you Outsiders
A new podcast from the team that brought you Outsiders
On the night of March 3, 2020 — three months before George Floyd was murdered — Manny Ellis encountered police while walking home in Tacoma, Washington. He died on that dark street corner. Officers say it was an accident brought on by Manny himself. The story almost ended there.
The reason it didn’t: Manny’s little sister, Monèt Carter-Mixon. Following her feeling that something about her brother’s death wasn’t right, Monèt set out to investigate what really happened. What she found challenges the way we think about these investigations, and it sets up what promises to be a trial unlike anything the Pacific Northwest has ever seen. But two years after Manny’s death collided with the racial justice movement of 2020 we want to know what his death means — and what his life meant.
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“A recording changes the trajectory of Monèt's life.”
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“In the stillness of the pandemic, Monèt hunts down crucial information.”
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“Investigators finish their probe into Manny’s death. Then, a revelation.”
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“Manny’s walk home ended at 96th and Ainsworth. It started 33 years earlier.”
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"Four Tacoma police officers each had their own journeys to 96th and Ainsworth. And so did the department they worked for."
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"A critical decision changes Manny's case, and a new story of his death emerges."
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“A community grapples with the fallout from Manny's case — and the movement that surrounds it.”
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“Manny’s death led to sweeping reform, but what really changed?”
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“The trial of the three Tacoma police officers charged with killing Manny Ellis is about to begin.”
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“While the jury deliberates, listen to the different stories the eyewitnesses and the officers tell about what happened the night Manny Ellis died.”
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“While the jury deliberates, we dive into the defense strategy, the dueling narratives over Manny’s cause of death, and the decisions the jury has to make.”
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“A Pierce County jury has found Tacoma Police Officers Matthew Collins, Christopher Shane Burbank, and Timothy Rankine not guilty of all charges related to the 2020 killing of Manny Ellis.”
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“After the officers charged with killing Manny Ellis are acquitted, how does the city of Tacoma move forward?”
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Credits
The Walk Home is a production of KNKX Public Radio and The Seattle Times with support from NPR.
Kari Plog
Reporter & Producer
Mayowa Aina
Reporter & Producer
Will James
Senior Producer
Jared Brown
Reporter
Patrick Malone
Reporter
Amy Jeffries
Editor
Florangela Davila
Executive Producer
Jonathan Martin
Executive Producer
Tiara Darnell
Editor
Bethany Denton
Mix Engineer
Rotator Creative
Cover Art
Lauren Frohne
Video
Erika Schultz
Video
Marcel E.C. Augustin
Music
Quincy “Q Dot” Henry
Music
Will Jordan
Music
Miyoko Wolf
Research
Parker Miles Blohm
Website
Ramon Dompor
Video
Corinne Chinn
Video
Cara Kuhlman
Online Managing Editor
Erik Hanberg
Marketing
Brenda Goldstein-Young
Events
Matt Lindenburg
Director Of Content
Special thanks to the Ellis family
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