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Jaahnavi Kandula: US police officer who joked about woman's death fired (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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The footage was captured on his body camera while he had made a call to a colleague.

"But she is dead," the officer was heard saying before laughing. "No, it's a regular person. Yeah, just write a cheque," he said, before laughing again.

"Eleven thousand dollars. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value," he added.

The Office of Police Accountability - the agency that investigates police misconduct - had recommended his termination for unprofessional conduct and showing bias in recorded statements, the Seattle Times reported.

Jaahnavi Kandula was a graduate student at Northeastern University in Seattle.

The officer who rammed her with his patrol vehicle was going at 74mph (119km/h) and she was thrown more than 100ft (30m), US media reports said.

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[–] schwim@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This doesn't seem political in nature. Just a shitbag that got caught on camera.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the government politics and how they have taken care of it.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean them just firing him and nothing else? Perhaps legal action is coming after. I know better than to count on it but I have seen it before and it always trails a bit behind the administrative punitive action.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I misunderstood your original comment, that it wasn't a Politics type post. I still think it's political in nature in that I live in Seattle, and the police captain, mayor and police force are all extremely political for absolutely everything.

The dude should have been charged with reckless driving at the very least. That street is a quiet street with nowhere to go, he should have never been driving that fast.

The police union guy is a dirtbag as well. Look at the guild's top line, "Hold the Line" is a link. I could write a book so I'll spare you the details, but the cops did a working walk-out all during Covid. They would refuse to answer calls that they didn't want to. TBF, they didn't show up a lot before that as well, lol. They're doing better now, but I have no idea why.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I clicked the link and saw the book "Justified deadly force and the myth of systemic racism" and immediately knew the type of person we're discussing. I totally understand your point on the matter better.