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.
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This part of the article seems super important to read:
“I intended the comment as a mockery of lawyers,” Auderer wrote, according to KTTH. “I laughed at the ridiculousness of how these incidents are litigated and the ridiculousness of how I watched these incidents play out as two parties bargain over a tragedy.”
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.” The comment was “not made with malice or a hard heart,” he said, but “quite the opposite.”
If he were not part of the Seattle police I might be willing to put down my pitchfork and give him the benefit of the doubt, but since he is, in fact, a prominent member of a lawless gang that is notorious for egregious civil rights violations, I say guilty until proven innocent. He’s already actively lost the trust of the public.
SPD has gotten “less bad” since 2021, when many officers quit after the protests because their fragile egos were too hurt. Those cops are now “serving” the local rich communities of Mercer island and Sammamish, where there are very few people of color. Seattle proper also lost some of their “finest” when a shit ton of them got caught up in the January 6 insurrection. Fairly sure all of those goons were fired.
Lately, as a Seattle resident, I’ve only seen SPD being lazy and not really responding to anything but the biggest emergencies. They do still occasionally sweep a homeless camp but they now give advance warning and give them a way to get their stuff back.
The city council voted to defund and this is the lukewarm result. It’s probably still a work in progress but they’ve drastically changed the size of the “force” here.
That sincerely sounds like someone caught saying something stupid trying to spin it into something less bad.
It could also be seen as dark humor from someone trying to relieve his own stress.
Y’know, a dark sense of humor is like ****¹; some have them, some don’t.
(¹ not sure if dark humor is allowed on this instance)
So his current claim is that he wasn’t mocking the victim, he was mocking the process of trying to get justice for victims and hold the police to account.
Also mocking the police lawyer who does the negotiating to lower the value of the woman’s life.
From an interview on a right-wing talk radio show. Context clues are important. Dude’s lucky he didn’t say anything more stupid that couldn’t be backpeddled like this was.
And as for ‘turning himself in’, it’s pretty suspicious that another city employee who was responsible for reviewing the footage also reported it up the chain of command, but the city couldn’t determine who did it first.
But yeah, let’s trust his version.
Everything you hear on the radio has to be true though. It was just some black humor nothing else/s.
What is “super important” about this? They are going to say whatever nonsense excuse they can come up with, it’s completely predictable.
Idk it’s usually pretty easy to tell bullshit apart from a genuine misunderstanding.
It was just a joke, bro!
“You guys, if you just kept listening at the very end you can hear me say ‘slash ess’, clear as day.”
Fair to point out, and prompted me to listen to the video. Having done so, the tone in the minute or so leading up to the comments does not strike my ear as backing up the officer’s claim. It’s not openly mocking like the comments, but it’s absolutely thin-blue-line stuff, minimizing the possibility of culpability by his colleague, and spinning the facts right from the get-go. I can almost buy that there is an element of wonder that this is the world they live in, but it felt a lot more like happy relief that they have the privilege of their position, rather than the sarcastic gallows humor you might expect from someone who finds the situation depressing.
No chance buddy, we’ve heard it all before
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.
@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.
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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American city, American news source. It’s definitely check
Fight me!
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.
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…
