On Tuesday, the Washington State Senate approved a bill that would require police officers to intervene against wrongdoing by fellow law enforcement officers.

SB 5066, introduced by Senator Manka Dhingra (D‑Redmond), a Northwest Progressive Foundation boardmember, is the latest in a series of police reform bills that Democrats have introduced to the state legislature in response to demands by Black Lives Matter and other groups to fundamentally change the nature of policing, demands given urgency by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the social justice and antiracism movement that was amplified by his murder.