A newly released bodycam video from the SPD shows an officer laughing while conversing with a coworker following a collision that killed a Seattle grad student.
  • geosoco@kbin.social
    99·
    1 year ago

    This article is garbage, and misses a number of key points as well as doesn’t fact check the police .

    Try this publicola one

    In fact, as we reported exclusively, Dave was driving 74 miles an hour in a 25 mile per hour zone and struck Kandula while she was attempting to cross the street in a marked and well-lighted crosswalk.

    “I think she went up on the hood, hit the windshield, then when he hit the brakes, she flew off the car. But she is dead. No, it’s a regular person. Yeah, just write a check. Yeah, $11,000. She was 26 anyway, she had limited value.”—Seattle police officer Daniel Auderer, joking with police union president Mike Solan about the death of pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula earlier that night.

    • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      391·
      1 year ago

      This shit pisses me off. They better be calling for his fucking badge. Fucking pig

      • Trebach@kbin.social
        19·
        1 year ago

        He needs to be arrested, convicted, and permanently disqualified from serving in law enforcement.

      • Astroturfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        I mean, that shits blatant vehicular manslaughter. He should get a decade+ in jail. We know he won’t though.

    • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Komo is owned by sinclair, the right wing mega corp that owns hundreds of local news stations in different markets. The same company of "this is very dangerous to our democracy fame" that forces local anchors to read top down editorial from corporate.

      Its no wonder they are kind to cops. Im surprised the article didn’t have a thin blue line background.

      • LUHG@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        1 year ago

        Limited value when he’s talking about her age screams sex trafficking to me. He should be investigated.

        • GregoryTheGreat@programming.devEnglish
          71·
          1 year ago

          I do think a lot of people already behave because they are afraid of the consequences. And we use peers to decide their fate. A mini mob if you will.

          I understand what you are getting at though. I’m just not sure tolerating behavior that this story is any better. Is putting him away forever any better than the death penalty?

      • Hegar@kbin.social
        35·
        1 year ago

        public hangings of corrupt people would fix this so fast.

        How?

        We can’t even stop police from continuing to do their job after they murder people, how are we going to give them the death penalty? And how is the state publicly murdering people going to discourage officers of the state from murdering people?

        I can understand the feeling of anger but public hanging? Come on. People who earnestly want public hanging back are troglodytic fascists.

        • Sunforged@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

          -Jack Handey

      • reversebananimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        1 year ago

        Please move to Russia/China. We don’t do that in the civilized world. We’re better than that.

        Edit: yes please downvote me for being against cruel and unusual punishment. Show everyone what kind of person you really are. I hope you get wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death so you can see how regressive your barbaric views are first hand.

        • Hegar@kbin.social
          31·
          1 year ago

          downvote me for being against cruel and unusual punishment.

          I dunno about the other 2, but I downvoted you for the xenophobic aside.