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.”
In another article the po-po was reportedly speeding to an incident with full lights and siren. It’s like it was an emergency or something, which - now, this is just me - I’m thinking those lights could make that speeding car extra visible when they’re going faster than the speed limit set for normal driving.
In one of the 6 other times this incident has been posted about, I read an opinion that suggested we can feel very sorry about what happened without making assumptions about either of the two victims here. Maybe that’s a good idea.