Comment on 'She had limited value': Seattle officer investigated over bodycam comments
thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 year agoIf a doctor drove nearly 50 miles per hour over the speed limit through the hospital without so much as using their horn and hit a patient, we’d be less understanding about the medical professional’s gallows humor. Doctors, nurses, and paramedics actively try to help people in horrible situations and often fail and they need an outlet. Our country is experiencing a problem with cops actively trying to harm people and putting them in those horrible situations; they don’t need an outlet, they need to take a step back and look at their lives.
This cop and union rep later went on to lie saying their siren was on, that Jahnavi Kandula wasn’t at a pedestrian crossing, and that they were only traveling at 50 mph. It wasn’t, she was, and he wasn’t: he was traveling 74 mph through a 25 mph zone. publicola.com/tag/jaahnavi-kandula/
If a patient comes into the hospital in shock because a train ran over their legs and the receiving nurse asks “what were they even doing laying on the tracks?” And the paramedic said “it doesn’t matter, they don’t have a leg to stand on,” then that’s dark as fuck but those are two people who absolutely need whatever it takes just to get this patient out alive.
If a surgeon jokingly started all their surgeries swiping a scalpel indiscriminately over the patient like an anime hero, then one time accidentally nicked an artery and the patient bled out after which the surgeon said “they were sick anyway, plus we charge all the patients so much to pay for these little whoopsies; just cut the family a ridiculously low check,” that doctor would be standing trial. If that doctor then lied saying “I yelled ‘look out,’ plus I think the patient lifted the operating table higher than I’m used to, and I really didn’t do that fast of a swipe so I couldn’t have been out of control,” then those arguments would be piss-poor excuses and the fact that they’re lies would prove that they knew what they did was wrong.
Do you get how one of these professionals is using humor to cope with trying to help people while the other is brushing off making corpses with humor? Like piss beading off a shit-duck’s back.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 year ago
You would have a point if he was the officer involved in the collision. He is not.
So, to use your “doctor” metaphor, it’s more like a neurosurgeon talking with a pediatrician about how badly the ER doctor fucked up, killed someone, and is in deep shit.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thank you for that correction. The articles I’m reading have far too many roles and not enough actors, if you will, to keep track of who is who saying what. I’m sure watching the video would help provide context, but I just can’t get myself to even look at it. It’s getting too hard to keep consuming videos of cops involved with turning someone’s lights off. With Jahhnavi, all I can think about is her parents and how I don’t want to be another face in the crowd who watched their daughter die and then heard it get written off by the kind of people who swore to protect her.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 year ago
If you watch the video, you’ll realize that the officer is on the phone with a peer. He is having a private conversation that was unfortunately and unintentionally recorded by his body camera.
I believe the officer is trying to use dark humor to develop a sense of detachment from a horrific event. His statements are clearly delivered as sarcasm, not sincerity. He is saying outlandish things in an attempt to avoid becoming emotionally overwhelmed.
He is coping, not denigrating.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We get it, you like the taste of boots.
betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
No, it would be like if a neurosurgeon and a pediatrician were talking about how badly an ER doctor fucked up, and how he should buy their family a six pack of beer because the dead person wasn’t important at all and had little value.