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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Yes, it looks bad. Local Miami Florida media is running this story in its mindset of “white cops are all bad”.
Cops see a lot of gruesome stuff and they respond in macabre ways. This guy’s cavalier attitude about human life, especially one at the expense of one of his own, is sickening.
The context of that is a private conversation. Cops get through difficult situations by making jokes about them. Nobody could do the job of a cop and remain somber throughout the entire day.
The ones who want constant somberness from cops are usually least equipped to do that kind of work.
Isn’t Northeastern University in Boston?
Never mind.
I looked it up. Northeastern has campuses all over the world.
Disgusting. He should go to prison and Seattle should pay millions in settlement.
Pales in comparison to Maui.
Just one more example of your tax dollars at work. These days it is more bad than good just about everywhere it seems.
It *is* bad.
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This is exactly why cops shouldn’t have to wear body cameras. Cops are numb to events like this. It’s like Hawkeye Pierce on MASH. They joke non stop to get through the day. I suspect if all of us wore body cameras we would be recorded saying stupid, insensitive stuff.
For laughing.
Seattle - Loser City.
When I was about 21 I lived off campus with a roommate. Probably 90% of college kids had roommates.
We were too ”po” to afford a phone service and this was pre-cell phone so I had to use campus phones. My grandfather died one night and the only way my parents could contact me was to call the police.
So the cops arrived and gave me the news, as I walked back to the house I could hear the cop laughing about having to get “deloused now”. I was hurt and angry. He also made some comments to his partner that I think referenced our being gay.
The thing is we were the opposite of gay (I ended up getting married the following summer and my roommate was pretty much a man whore, picked up a different girl at the bar about every 2 weeks) and that’s not even the point. What kind of soulless monster what make crude comments within hearing of a young man whose GRANDFATHER had died that day and you just gave him the news?
I think, if an officer, does that to somebody, there should be a disciplinary action. Gallows humour is inappropriate outside the work, unless you know the person enjoys gallows humour himself. However, if he’s just speaking to other officers it should be considered private.
The officer that spoke to you was wrong, because it was your grandfather and he shouldn’t assume you can handle such a joke.
Cop is obviously at fault. But given how many times I’ve seen clueless pedestrians cross busy streets without looking because they have a crosswalk and the legal right-of-way despite the physics, I would bet that Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, living in Seattle no less, had a bad habit of not looking both ways, was probably staring at her phone and is partially responsible for her own death.
For what,being a dick?
I remember when I was in the Arm as an MP, three of us had to go out at around 3;00 am and secure the seen of a fatal accident where a guy that worked in our motor pool, and played sports with, was hit by a high speed train (80 mph). Thy had removed his torso, but he was ripped apart. We got through it by telling ghost stories and pretty crass jokes. Things I would not want a one outside that group to hear. When it was light, the investigators finished their job, they gave us gloves and trash bags to pick up the prices. I found a shoe with the foot still in it. Then I found what I thought was an internal organ because of the size and bight red color. But as I tried to pick it up, it was crunchy and grey goo spilled out. It was part of his skull. One of the most traumatizing things I have ever seen. You have to get through things like that somehow. Crying was not an option, so jokes and stories where.
It was to dispatch but I could clearly hear it.
BTW Terre Haute Indiana , 1984. You never forget where you were when a grandfather dies.
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