A Seattle police officer, whose insensitive comments and laughter following the death of an Indian student had caused outrage, has been fired.
Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, was struck by a police vehicle driven by Seattle Police Officer Kevin Dave as she was crossing a street on January 23. Dave was driving 74 mph (more than 119 kmh) on the way to a report of a drug overdose call. Kandula was thrown 100 feet when she was struck by the speeding police patrol vehicle.
In bodycam footage released by the Seattle Police Department, Officer Daniel Auderer laughed about the deadly crash and remarked that Uh, I think she went up on the hood, hit the windshield, and then when he hit the brakes, flew off the car...But she is dead. After making these comments, Auderer laughed hard for four seconds, the Disciplinary Action Report said.
Interim Chief Sue Rahr at the Seattle Police Department said in an internal email that the hurt Auderer's words have inflicted on Kandula's family cannot be erased. The
