Officer Daniel Auderer was caught appearing to mock Jaahnavi Kandula when speaking to a colleague. In a reported statement, he said the comments were not made with 'malice or hard heart'.
Officer Daniel Auderer was caught appearing to mock Jaahnavi Kandula when speaking to a colleague. In a reported statement, he said the comments were not made with"malice or hard heart".1:16A Seattle police officer is under investigation after being recorded joking about a woman hit and killed by a police car.
Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, died after being struck by a vehicle, driven by officer Kevin Dave, as she was crossing a road in January. After responding to the incident, officer Daniel Auderer was recorded on bodycam footage describing details of the incident, saying that the student's life had"limited value".
"He was going 50mph, that's not reckless for a trained driver," Mr Auderer, a Seattle police department union leader said, appearing to address the speed of the police car which hit Ms Kandula. According to The Seattle Times, the officer driving the car was going at 74mph while on the way to respond to an overdose call. The impact meant Ms Kandula was thrown more than 30m ."But she is dead," Mr Auderer told Mike Solan, president of the"It's a regular person," the officer joked.
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