Newly released body camera footage reveals that a Seattle police officer laughed and made light of the death of a young woman who was hit and killed by a police car, joking that she had “limited value” and that the city should “just write a check.”
Officer Daniel Auderer can be heard in the video discussing the investigation of the crash involving graduate student Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, who was struck and killed by his colleague, Officer Kevin Dave, on January 23.
“She’s dead,” Auderer says before bursting into laughter. “No, she is a normal person,” she says, referring to Kandula.
Toward the end of the video, Auderer can be heard saying, laughing, “Yeah, just write a check. Eleven thousand dollars. She was 26 years old anyway,” she said, misstating the victim’s age. “She had limited value.”
Auderer, who serves as vice president of the Seattle Police Guild, also mentions in the clip that he did not believe a criminal investigation was taking place.
Officer Daniel Auderer was captured on body camera video laughing and joking about the fatal collision a day after the crash. Open Supervision
Seattle Police Officer Kevin Dave fatally struck graduate student Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, while speeding in January. FOX 13
“I mean, I was going 50 mph. That’s not out of control. This is not reckless for a trained driver,” Auderer said.
However, a report released in June revealed that Dave was actually driving 74 mph in a 25 mph zone while responding to a different “high priority” call, KIRO 7 reported.
Auderer responded to the scene of the Jan. 23 crash to perform a drug test on Dave.
Time stamps on the body camera footage show that his call to another colleague about the incident took place the following night.
Dave had sounded his siren, but did not have it on continuously, when he crashed into Kandula, a master’s student at Northeastern University’s Seattle campus, footage of the incident shows.
Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student from India, was due to graduate in December. FOX 13
Dave performed CPR on Kandula, a Northeastern University student, who died from the collision. FOX 13
Dave’s body camera footage reveals that he admitted he “fucked up” after speeding through the intersection of Dexter Avenue North and Thomas Street, where the speed limits are 25 and 20 mph, respectively.
Moments after reaching top speed, he can be seen slowing the car before hitting Kandula at the fateful intersection.
He performed CPR on the exchange student, who came to Northeastern University in Seattle from India to pursue a master’s degree in scientific information systems in the College of Engineering. He was due to graduate in December.
Video of the shocking phone call that occurred a day after the deadly collision was also uploaded to the Seattle Police Department’s YouTube page.
The Seattle Police Department released the video that includes Auderer’s comments “in the interest of transparency.”OpenOversight
The department, which released the video “in the interest of transparency,” said it will not comment on the matter until the Office of Police Accountability concludes its investigation into the incident.
The concerning call was “identified in the routine course of business by a department employee” and passed on to Police Chief Adrian Diaz, who referred it to the Office of Police Accountability.
The civilian-led Seattle Community Police Commission said the incident responds to concerns it has “repeatedly raised about elements of the Seattle Police Department’s culture and SPOG’s resistance to officer accountability measures included in the historic Police Accountability Ordinance of 2017.”
“The people of Seattle deserve better from a police department that is responsible for building community trust and ensuring public safety,” the CPC added.
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