The failure of those efforts, along with another bill that would have created community oversight boards for police, has led some community advocates to question how committed legislators are to holding officers accountable for misconduct or excessive uses of force.
Those frustrations come on the heels of several high-profile killings of Black people by police last year, including the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis; Breonna Taylor in Kentucky; Ahmaud Arbery and Rayshard Brooks in Georgia; and, more locally, Manuel Ellis in Tacoma.
“There should be no pats on the back at this point,” said Lyn Idahosa, executive director of the Federal Way Black Collective. “No one in the community
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