Officer Kevin Dave hit and killed Kandula with his police cruiser while the 23-year-old student was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk on Jan. 23, 2023.
Dave was driving 74 miles an hour without continuously running his siren while responding to a drug overdose call, on a street with a speed limit of 25 miles an hour.
Months later, footage was released of Seattle Police Officers Guild Vice President Daniel Auderer joking about Kandula’s death over the phone with SPOG President Mike Solan.
In that recording, Auderer can be heard laughing as he referred to Kandula as “a regular person,” going on to say, “Just write a check – $11,000, she was 26 anyway, she had limited value.”
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
holy shit, that’s awful. I fully expect protests tonight in Seattle, and they will be damned justified
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
They went for vehicular homicide on a cop going too fast with lights and sirens on when they ran out into the street.
They may try for a lesser charge now, but if they really wanted a case with a guilty verdict they never should have gone for vehicular homicide to begin with. Too intentional of a charge for what happened. Last article I had read did say that a lesser charge could still be pursued, though.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The article you’re responding to specifically states he didn’t have sirens on
GhostFence@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Dude, they said she had little value. The guy could be axe murdering her in the street and the SPD would have his back.