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TACOMA, Wash. — Three Tacoma police officers who were acquitted last month of killing Manuel Ellis reached settlements totaling $1.5 million to walk away from their jobs after an internal investigation largely cleared them of wrongdoing. Officers Matthew Collins, Christopher Shane Burbank and Timothy Rankine had been on paid leave since June 2020. They’ve already collected about $1.5 million in pay, received multiple raises and accrued hundreds of hours of vacation time since they last worked, city payroll records show. Collins, Burbank and Rankine will each receive $500,000 settlements to lea…