A fired Seattle police officer is suing the town for wrongful termination and damages after he was once terminated for bodycam video appearing what seems to be him joking and giggling after a girl was once struck and killed via a patrol automobile.
Former Seattle police officer Daniel Auderer filed a $20 million tort grievance in opposition to the town of Seattle for damages weeks after he was once fired for his habits following the dying of Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old Northeastern College scholar.
Auderer claims hurt to his non-public popularity, wrongful termination and psychological ache and struggling. He’s additionally claiming misplaced wages of $200,000 in keeping with 12 months.
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Seattle police division patch. (GENNA MARTIN/San Francisco Chronicle by the use of Getty Photographs)
Following his feedback and up to date firing after an investigation, Auderer maintained that his feedback had been taken out of context.
Within the grievance, Auderer mentioned partially, “Seattle PD leaked false knowledge relating to wrongfully initiated disciplinary complaints in addition to my non-public knowledge.”
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He additionally argued that he was once wrongfully terminated as a result of his management function within the Seattle Police Officials Guild.
“SPD then wrongfully terminated me. This was once retaliatory, no less than because of my union management.”
In a remark to FOX 13, Seattle period in-between police Leader Sue Rahr defended her determination to terminate Auderer.
“On the root of this situation lies a particularly tough judgment name of how you can moderately stability ‘intent as opposed to have an effect on,'” Rahr mentioned. “The movements [of] this person police officer have introduced disgrace at the Seattle Police Division and our whole career, making the process of each police officer harder.”
A Seattle police officer has been fired for making callous remarks in regards to the dying of a graduate scholar from India after she was once struck via any other officer’s car in a crosswalk final 12 months. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Instances by the use of AP, Report)
The 23-year-old girl was once killed after a Seattle police automobile pushed via any other officer hit her.
Within the frame digital camera photos, up to now launched via the Seattle Police Division, Auderer is heard relating to Kandula as “a normal particular person and announcing to, “simply write a take a look at — $11,000, she was once 26 anyway, she had restricted worth.”
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Fox Information Virtual has reached out to the Seattle Police Division and the town of Seattle for remark.
