[India] - Seattle police officers caught jesting over Indian woman's death

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
WASHINGTON: Seattle police and law enforcement agencies are investigating several police officers, including some union members, after a
body-camera audio-video showed them laughing and downplaying the death of a young Indian student hit by a speeding police cruiser
police patrol car driven by officer Kevin Dave traveling at 74 miles an hour (119 kmph) in a 25-mph (40 kmph) zone.Another officer, later
recognition test on Officer Dave, reported the incident to SPOG president Mike Solan.Part of their conversation conducted from a police
But she is dead..
eleven thousand dollars..
she was 26 anyway..
conversation has shocked and outraged a nation all too familiar with callous police behaviour
Although the crash took place on January 23, local authorities released the video of the exchanges on September 11 while announcing an
his duties as a SPOG representative
identified in the routine course of business by a department employee, who, concerned about the nature of statements heard on that video,
the matter to OPA for investigation into the context in which those statements were made and any policy violation that might be
implicated.Officer Auderer's conversation, callous and insensitive as it is, also contains inaccuracies
for a trained driver, when he was actually travelling at 74 miles an hour, according to a report cited in the local media.Local media
KTTH radio station in Seattle
officials in Washington DC
shows US cops joking about Indian student knocked dead by police car