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Seattle officer caught on bodycam laughing after collision that killed grad student (komonews.com)
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[–] geosoco@kbin.social 99 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

This article is garbage, and misses a number of key points as well as doesn't fact check the police .

Try this publicola one

In fact, as we reported exclusively, Dave was driving 74 miles an hour in a 25 mile per hour zone and struck Kandula while she was attempting to cross the street in a marked and well-lighted crosswalk.

“I think she went up on the hood, hit the windshield, then when he hit the brakes, she flew off the car. But she is dead. No, it’s a regular person. Yeah, just write a check. Yeah, $11,000. She was 26 anyway, she had limited value.”—Seattle police officer Daniel Auderer, joking with police union president Mike Solan about the death of pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula earlier that night.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This shit pisses me off. They better be calling for his fucking badge. Fucking pig

[–] Trebach@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

He needs to be arrested, convicted, and permanently disqualified from serving in law enforcement.

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I mean, that shits blatant vehicular manslaughter. He should get a decade+ in jail. We know he won't though.

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

This article is garbage, [...] doesn’t fact check the police

Typical KOMO/Sinclair media fare, then

[–] GregoryTheGreat@programming.dev 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What does limit value mean?…public hangings of corrupt people would fix this so fast.

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Limited value when he's talking about her age screams sex trafficking to me. He should be investigated.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

public hangings of corrupt people would fix this so fast.

How?

We can't even stop police from continuing to do their job after they murder people, how are we going to give them the death penalty? And how is the state publicly murdering people going to discourage officers of the state from murdering people?

I can understand the feeling of anger but public hanging? Come on. People who earnestly want public hanging back are troglodytic fascists.

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

-Jack Handey

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Please move to Russia/China. We don't do that in the civilized world. We're better than that.

Edit: yes please downvote me for being against cruel and unusual punishment. Show everyone what kind of person you really are. I hope you get wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death so you can see how regressive your barbaric views are first hand.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

downvote me for being against cruel and unusual punishment.

I dunno about the other 2, but I downvoted you for the xenophobic aside.

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 1 points 2 years ago

Calling authoritarian governments authoritarian is not xenophobia.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Komo is owned by sinclair, the right wing mega corp that owns hundreds of local news stations in different markets. The same company of "this is very dangerous to our democracy fame" that forces local anchors to read top down editorial from corporate.

Its no wonder they are kind to cops. Im surprised the article didn't have a thin blue line background.