Police union leader said woman killed by Seattle officer ‘had limited value’

Daniel Auderer denies wrongdoing, claiming he intended the comment as a mockery of lawyers'

A Seattle police union leader was caught on camera joking about a woman who was killed by a police cruiser, saying her life had limited value" and the city should just write a check".

Daniel Auderer, vice-president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, responded to the scene of a 23 January crash where another Seattle police officer, Kevin Dave, had struck and killed Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student, on a crosswalk. Dave was driving 74mph (119km/h) on the way to an overdose call in an area where the speed limit was 25mph. Kandula was thrown more than 100ft and died that night.