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Bodycam shows Seattle cop joking about "limited value" of 26 year old woman killed by police cruiser and also joking about writing it off as a cheque worth $11000.

www.cbsnews.com Bodycam shows Seattle cop joking about "limited value" of woman killed by police cruiser. He claims he was misunderstood.

Daniel Auderer responded to the Jan. 23 crash scene where another officer, Kevin Dave, hit and killed Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, in a crosswalk.

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Just remember... ACAB
- I had to lookup what ACAB meant. Here's a summary: The Wikipedia article on "ACAB" discusses the acronym's usage in various contexts, primarily as an anti-police slogan. It explains that "ACAB" stands for "All Cops Are Bastards" and has been associated with criticism of law enforcement, especially in cases of police brutality and misconduct. The article also delves into its origins, history, and controversies surrounding its use, highlighting the differing opinions on its message. Additionally, it covers related topics such as "1312," an alternative numerical representation of ACAB. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB
  
  I'm honestly surprised that someone that spends enough time on the internet to end up on lemmy doesn't know about ACAB.
  
  All cats are beautiful!
  
  Always Carry A Banana
  
  Are you a robot?
  
  I like also like "All cops are bad" for when you want to get the message across without cursing or disparaging the parentless
- Including the ones who save people's lives?
  
  I'd like to say no, but a good cop that stays silent and enables a bad cop to continue doing their bad shit is just as responsible imo
  
  It is impossible to be a "good" police officer because the system of rules and regulations they enforce is, first of all, fundamentally unjust. Any laws or regulations which may be considered "just" are not enforced equally amongst different classes, races, sexual orientations, or genders. Anyone who chooses to obediently enforce such a fundamentally unjust system is not "good". Anyone who is "good" would never choose to enforce or perpetuate such a system and wouldn't be an officer for long. Anything that could be considered morally good done by a police officer will quickly be offset by their actions taken to perpetuate an unjust system.
  Further, the fundamental responsibility of the police is to defend corporate capital and fill for-profit jails that are still essentially debtors prisons that put people, especially minorities, into a cycle of eternal debt and oppression. They are the lackeys of a state owned in full by capitalists, and in most cases they are (by design) too stupid to see it. If they are not too stupid to see it, then they enjoy inflicting violence with the authority vested in them by public trust. If they are neither too stupid nor especially violent, then they are simply ignorant.
  People exist on a spectrum. Therefore police do as well. But the point is that all cops agree to enforce laws which are not equitable. Very few of those laws have anything to do with safety and are in fact designed to enhance the comfort of the bourgeoisie.

OP, there's a factual error in the headline. The cop on the call is a union leader who showed up afterwards. We don't know, at least not from this story, how the officer who hit the woman reacted.
Edit: Best I could find.

Someone should help Daniel Auderer realize that he has the same limited value he attributes to others.

@alphacyberranger@lemmy.world would you please edit your post title to change "his police cruiser" to "police cruiser", like the headline actually says? from the article text it is clear that the cop who made this statement is not the one who killed someone.
(the actual headline is also shitty in that it says that a car killed someone, rather than that its driver did...)

The Seattle police officer in the video didn't hit the woman with his cruiser. One of the people in his police union did, of which he is vice-president.

Gotta love these "Sorry (I got caught)" apologies

This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a recording released by the police department Monday, Auderer laughs and suggests that Kandula's life had "limited value" and the city should "just write a check."
However, a conservative talk radio host on KTTH-AM, Jason Rantz, reported that he had obtained a written statement Auderer provided to the city's Office of Police Accountability.
The station reported that Auderer acknowledged in the statement that anyone listening to his side of the conversation alone "would rightfully believe I was being insensitive to the loss of human life."
Kandula was working toward graduating in December with a master's degree in information systems from the Seattle campus of Northeastern University.
"The people of Seattle deserve better from a police department that is charged with fostering trust with the community and ensuring public safety," the commission's members said in a joint statement.
Members from both the Community Police Commission and the African American Advisory Council said hearing Auderer laugh about Kandula's death reinforces a message to the people of Seattle that the department as a whole allows that type of behavior, KIRO-TV reported.
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Honestly, I'm the kind of fucked up person who would joke about something like that...so long as I wasn't the one who did it.
These guys should be barred from law enforcement positions, and probably suffer the same consequences a normal person would for a car accident of the same caliber. It was clear they weren't using lights/sirens appropriately either. It looked like they were turning them on/off at lights and if they didn't see anything they kept them off...
- Humor is fine even is poor taste it is a free country...
  However, if you are on the job, got to keep professional which is a tall order for these pigs.
  They got license to kill if they are scared or apparently even if they are not...

American city, American news source. It's definitely check
Fight me!

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