Shortly after learning that a Seattle police officer had run over and killed a woman at a crosswalk, Daniel Auderer, a Seattle cop and the vice-president of the police guild called the union's president and joked about the young woman's death. "She is dead," Auderer says. Then he laughs. "No, it’s a regular person. Yeah, yeah, just write a check, just, yeah." Auderer laughs again. "$11,000. She was 26 anyway, she had limited value." Jaahnavi Kandula, who was only 23 when she was killed, was a Master's student at Northeastern University and financially supporting her mother back in India. The cop who called her a person of "limited value" has been the subject of eighteen Office of Police Accountability investigations since 2014, costing the city more than $2,000,000 in lawsuits. More
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