Posted on 09/13/2023 1:44:43 AM PDT by Morgana
New bodycam footage has revealed the moment a Seattle police officer callously laughed and said that the life of a Northeastern University student who was mowed down by a cop car had 'limited value.'
Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, was run down by a speeding Seattle Police Department SUV as she was crossing a heavily marked crosswalk near her campus in the South Lake Union neighborhood on January 23.
Detective Daniel Auderer - who was not in the car that hit the student, but was responding to the scene - said that police can just 'write a check' after killing masters student Kandula.
He cackled and downplayed her death while on the phone with his colleague, whose side of the conversation was not recorded.
In the unearthed bodycam, Auderer said: 'Yeah, just write a check. $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'
He was also heard uttering: 'I mean, he was going 50 (MPH). That's not out of control. That's not reckless for a trained driver.'
The cop driving the car, officer Kevin Dave, was in fact doing at 74mph in a 25mph zone before he slammed into Jaahnavi Kandula.
Auderer is a drug-recognition officer, who was assigned to determine whether Dave was under the influence. He concluded that his colleague was sober.
After finishing his analysis, he called Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan, and the pair talked for two minutes - which is the basis for the newly released bodycam footage.
The Seattle Police Department said that the clip of Auderer laughing was spotted by an employee during a routine check.
Kandula was crossing the intersection of Dexter Avenue North and Thomas Street near the college campus in January when she was thrown 100 feet into the air. She died at the hospital a day later.
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Once again, Skippy. It is unreasonable for their entire 12 hour shifts to watch their words at all times. That’s how you get no police officers. Your positions turns cities like Chicago into war zones, where 1000 people die every years, because police can’t enforce the law.
It works in a small town where, what happens daily in a big city daily is a once in a generation event.
No. In his car, he should expect privacy. I am not going to agree with that. I will never agree with you on that. There must be times in the day, when an officer can blow off steam in order to handle his work.
I can’t help if weak people can’t handle that.
He should go to prison for being an insensitive idiot and completely unprofessional and the taxpayers should also be punished for his lack of compassion?
That’s the way some people deal with shock.
“In his car, he should expect privacy.”
It’s not his car, Scooter. It belongs to the taxpayers. Are you really that dense?
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I may be dense, but I’m not dense enough to not understand how expecting cops to be 24/7 angels turns once good cities into hellholes. Detroit, Chicago, New York are 100% the fault of those who expect cops to be as you expect them to be while working, with no break to be themselves.
I’m personally happy if cops are professional when dealing with the public, but telling bad jokes to keep them sane in the car. I have no problem with them, in a taxpayer paid car, telling bad jokes because they just dealt with the worst of humanity.
“I may be dense…”
There’s no “may be” about it.
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Frickin smart ass cops. They think their God’s gift to society.
We had one run punch his patrol car through a warehouse wall at 90mph when he was on funeral procession detail. it only caused $750,000 damage and the cop got a day off with pay.
I understand a gallows sense of humor, but this goes beyond that.
If he had said it to somebody not within the department, I agree.
Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s they were trained not to do that because people tune out constant noise.
I’m happy to admit that I’m dense, but 1000 people are shot every year in Chicago because of people like yourselves. Their lives are worth to ensure that cops are held accountable every moment of the day to avoid offending somebody.
“ I’m happy to admit that I’m dense,”
Duly noted. Thanks.
“But 1000 people are shot every year in Chicago because of people like yourselves.”
GFY, Skippy. Well over 90% of those shootings are gang related. The CPD calls them NHIs, No Humans Involved. And it ain’t my fault the brain dead voters in Chicago put that idiot Kim Foxx in the States Attorney’s office. That’s on them.
I’m in the next county where the States Attoney actually prosecutes criminals to the best of his abilities considering the shackles he’s locked into by our idiot Governor and his idiot cohorts in the General Assembly.
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They don’t have to angels 24/7, just every second they have the power of life and death over people. They’ve all Mirandized somebody, so the concept that anything they say can and will be used against them shouldn’t be foreign.
Can you name a episode where Hawkeye made joke like this about someone they killed, I must have missed it. If someone were to kill this cop - could they ‘just write a check’?
Was is a result of reckless driving? Geesh, seems like some posters are worried about the manslaughterers feelings more than the young woman who was killed.
Yes. They can learn to vote more wisely next time.
He did kill the woman. He arrived after the accident.
Wasn’t reckless driving.
The Abrams broke down on the tank trail. The 88 was going to drag it back to the motor pool, and while setting up the brakes on the 88 slipped and it rolled back crushing the dude.
Engineering student run over by Seattle police remembered as ‘brilliant’ and ‘full of hope’
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/jaahnavi-kandula-remembered-tribute-rcna105262
In what way does she fit the description of “SIN”? It’s quite unnecessary to piss on a dead 23-year-old because you harbor a bias. She wasn’t at fault nor did she do anything to deserve criticism.
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