Officer Daniel Auderer said the city of Seattle should just “write a check” to the family of killed 23-year-old.
A Seattle police officer has been caught on bodycam footage laughing at and making fun of the death of a young woman who was struck and killed by a cop responding to a call in his cruiser. In the two-minute-long video, reported on by The New York Post, we can hear Officer Daniel Auderer — who serves as the Seattle Police Guild’s Vice President — saying the dead 23-year-old grad student had “limited value” and the city should “just write a check.”
The footage takes place in Auderer’s police cruiser as he drives around city streets and discusses the wreck involving Jaahnavi Kandula over the phone with an unknown person whom we never hear. Kandula was struck and killed by his colleague, Officer Kevin Dave, in late January of this year.
I’m a fan of gallows humor, enjoy cracking the joke that makes other people aghast, but my jokes (all modesty aside) would have some twisted element of humor, and the cop’s cracks do not.
What’s most striking to me is that no time had lapsed — his unfunny jokes weren’t the next day or the next week, they came quite quickly after the wreck, where a young woman had been killed.
Can’t find any benefit of the doubt. Officer Daniel Auderer’s remarks reveal who Officer Daniel Auderer is. So does this earlier, better coverage.
It was the same night??? :( Nevermind.