Jaahnavi Kandula death: Comments taken out of context, says Seattle police officer; online petition seeks his termination

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Northeastern University, was struck by officer Kevin Dave at a pedestrian crossing on the night of January 23, 2023. He was driving at a speed of more than 119 kmh on the way to a report of a drug overdose call.
In a bodycam footage released on Monday by the Seattle Police Department, Officer Daniel Auderer laughed about the deadly crash and dismissed any implication Dave might be at fault or that a criminal investigation was necessary.
In the video, Auderer can be heard saying, «Yeah, just write a cheque.

$11,000. She was 26 anyway, she had limited value.»
«The video captures only one side of the conversation.

There is much more detail and nuance that has not been made public yet...,» the Seattle Police Officers Guild said in a statement as it also released a letter written by its officer Auderer in which the latter is saying that he intended the comment as a mockery of lawyers.
In the letter dated August 3 to the Office of Police Accountability, Auderer said he laughed at the ridiculousness of how these incidents are litigated and the ridiculousness of how he has watched these incidents play out as two parties bargain over a tragedy.
«At the time I believed the conversation was private and not being recorded. The conversation was also not within the course of my duties,» he wrote in his letter to Gino Betts, director Office of Police Accountability.
«On January 23, 2023 I was dispatched from home to assist with a fatality collision involving a city vehicle,» he said.
«While enroute home I called Mike Solan to give him an update regarding what had occurred.

The phone call was inadvertently recorded on my BWV which had turned on. The conversation took place in my patrol car.

I was the only occupant. During that phone