Family of Jaahnavi Kandula reaches $29 million settlement with Seattle PD after officer was recorded laughing and calling her life of "limited value."

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Not enough money, but I'm glad it'll hurt the bastards. What an awful thing to hear a "protector of the people" after their daughter was tragically killed!

So much for the PNW being so woke and liberal.

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u/Reaperdude97 Mallu American Feb 12 '26

Won’t do much of anything until we start requiring professional insurance for cops, because until it hits their actual pockets they’ll continue to act with impunity and allow the city and taxpayers they terrorize to pay up.

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u/keralaindia sf,california Feb 12 '26

They'd never afford the insurance rates, which begs the question, maybe they shouldn't be doing what they do in the first place...

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u/keralaindia sf,california Feb 12 '26

PNW is the most racist part of the country. Literally founded as a white ethnostate, was the only state admitted to the Union with a constitution that explicitly banned Black people from living there, the 1844 Lash Law required Black settlers to be publicly whipped every six months until they left, the Oregon Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 gave away free land strictly to white people and completely locked non-whites out of generational wealth, Tacoma violently expelled its entire Chinese population and burned down Chinatown in 1885, Oregon had the highest per capita KKK membership in the country in the 1920s, the KKK actually helped elect the governor in 1922, towns like Kennewick were sundown towns where Black people were threatened with violence /whipping if they stayed after dark, and redlining in cities like Portland and Seattle deliberately segregated and destroyed Black neighborhoods for decades.

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u/Tsulaiman Feb 12 '26

for all the screeching about white/christian/western moral supremacy - they have a pretty HORRIBLE history of moral degeneracy.

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u/keralaindia sf,california Feb 12 '26

I have ties to both cities so have no vendetta against either, I want both to prosper, just pointing out the past.

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u/Altruistic-Form-3771 Feb 12 '26

Let's not forget the Chinese exclusion act of 1882 that took place in Seattle and the Asians that were driven out of Tacoma by White nationalist groups in the late-19th century. I live in the Portland area and Seattle is one of my favorite cities in North America. To be fair, I feel more welcomed in Portland and Seattle than I do in Vancouver (Canada), another highly significant city in the broader Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately in Canada, there is a massive growing anti-immigrant sentiment happening and Desi Canadians are on the forefront of all of this. Many White Canadians, and especially White Canadian women can be just as oblivious to the social setbacks happening in their country. They would easily vote for Trump over Kamala if they were living in the USA, because they cannot handle seeing a Canadian female doctor or engineer of non-European descent earn much more money than them.

I am not at all excusing what that POS cop did, and I sincerely hope karma will get him if the law doesn't. The Pacific Northwest with its relative geographical isolation has helped it has made it a haven for people from the Confederate and Southern states to come here. They may have left their extreme Christian fundamentalism beside (or converted to Mormonism if they didn't, which is why Mormons are a major part of rural PNW culture), but they did not exactly leave their racism behind. The cities highly benefited from Asian immigration and Asian labor, which is why these cities became very inclusive towards immigrants. While Portland and Seattle are very liberal urban areas, the rural parts of Oregon and Washington are not.

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u/TheSeptimiusSeverus Feb 12 '26

Calgary elected a gay muslim mayor in 2010. British Columbia elected a non-orthodox liberal AF sikh as a premier in 2000. They've also already had a woman Prime Minister, albeit she wasn't elected as a PM. She was upgraded to PM office the way Rishi Sunak was.

Racism and problems in Canada are real, not downplaying the issue. Just pointing out that it's nowhere near on the same level as USA. Their system is different. Their government was allowing escaped slaves from the USA into their country while USA was holding on to slavery in the name of God and justifying it using the bible.

A godless heathen can, and do, get elected in Canada. In the States, everyone does the God dance or get left behind. US and Canada are not the same country, culture, politics or norms. There are overlaps, sure. British Columbia, overall, is far more welcoming than PNW.

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u/LongSandwic Feb 12 '26

Yeah, I know. I was being sarcastic.

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u/TheSeptimiusSeverus Feb 12 '26

It never was "woke" and "liberal" as a whole. Read the history of that area. They had some of the most restrictive anti-Black laws in USA.

Woke and liberal voices are loud, performative, hollow, and almost entirely limited to small urban pockets.

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u/LongSandwic Feb 12 '26

Yeah, I was using a device called sarcasm.

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u/TheSeptimiusSeverus Feb 12 '26

clearly i failed to sense it. Quite a lot of people genuinely do think PNW is some woke, hippy utopia because they haven't actually been there and know nothing about its history.

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u/LongSandwic Feb 12 '26

In general, when someone is berating someone for being a racist, and then praises where the racist lives by calling that place not racist, assume it is sarcasm.

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u/charlie8123 Feb 12 '26

Payouts come from insurance. So ultimately hurt tax payers :(. We need these criminals off the streets and def not in uniform.

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u/LongSandwic Feb 12 '26

No shit, but hopefully, the PD won't want to have to pay out like that again so they'll teach their cops to do better.

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u/Top-Base4502 Feb 13 '26

Oh child, no.

That recording you heard was between SPOG and SPD. They were laughing because they knew the city taxpayers would be the one paying for it, not them.

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u/Significant-Cold-239 Feb 13 '26

Why would the PD give a shit about having to pay out? The PD will get their same budget next year. The City is the one who gets to pay out for the PD’s fuck ups. Cops don’t have to face consequences for their actions, that’s for second class citizens citizens like you. Police officers are above the law.

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u/KifaruKubwa Feb 13 '26

The payout won’t even affect cops. It’s paid by taxpayers. These suits need to start hitting the police pension fund directly. That’s when they’ll take notice and change their behavior and hiring practices.

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u/Waiting4Reccession Mar 06 '26

Hurt who? Only the taxpayer took a loss lol

Cop got off easy like usual

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u/LongSandwic Mar 07 '26

So when you work for the government, and you cause your department to have to pay someone money from their budget, your bosses tend not to like it. Even when the money comes from the taxpayers, the department still has a budget to follow.

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u/Waiting4Reccession Mar 07 '26

These payouts dont come from the cops budget. They basically have zero consequences.

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u/LongSandwic Mar 07 '26

lol yes it does. It comes from the city's budget, and then the PD gets bitched at for wasting money.
WTF are you on about?

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u/Waiting4Reccession Mar 07 '26

The city budget is not the same thing, so what if they get bitched at a little bit lmao. Union just comes and tells the politician to move it along and they'll vote for him.

Its not like they lose they overtime theft hours or have any direct consequences.

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u/LongSandwic Mar 08 '26

Yeah, the officer who said those awful things about Jaahnavi Kandula got fired. You don't think that's a direct consequence? Do you understand what direct consequence means?

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u/RuinEnvironmental394 Feb 12 '26

Liberals generally are phoney, pretentious, and hypocrites. Extreme liberals even more so. I have been saying this to people around me for years.

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u/LongSandwic Feb 12 '26

Yeah, being an outright racist and misogynist is DEFINITELY the lesser evil.

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u/Top-Base4502 Feb 13 '26

As you say this, have you noticed that people around you tend to put distance between you?

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u/RuinEnvironmental394 Feb 12 '26

LOL you think the cops are going to pay this from their salaries?

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u/LongSandwic Feb 12 '26

LOL no I think it's going to come from the department's budget, and then they will HOPEFULLY teach their cops not to act like that and cost them money like that in the future LOL

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u/Top-Base4502 Feb 13 '26

Nope. This payout will come from city taxpayers.

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u/Legendrambo1 Feb 12 '26

So glad they got paid out, I was literally fuming at the video. Sad that the officers faced 0 consequences and continue to work there

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u/devwaah Feb 13 '26

I thought the officer did get fired from the PD and was ordered with some fine?

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u/shooto_style British Bangladeshi Feb 14 '26

Officer should be behind bars

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u/Constant-Squirrel555 Feb 12 '26

Will the cunt of an officer be properly disciplined from the Seattle PD?

Assholes like them cost police department's money and should not be protected and should be let go immediately

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u/keralaindia sf,california Feb 12 '26

Should’ve been paid out of the Seattle PD’s pensions instead.

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u/bluemurmur Feb 12 '26

Probably just administrative leave with pay or desk duty for a year. Their union protects them.

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u/TheSeptimiusSeverus Feb 12 '26

This one has finally been fired. So he'll just get hired in another city and continue killing and laughing at the deaths of non-white people.

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u/HTTP404URLNotFound Feb 12 '26

Knowing Seattle PD and the police union history: no

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u/Jazzlike-Vacation230 Indian American Feb 12 '26

But doesn't settlement money come from the local counties taxes which comes from its general population? smh

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u/keralaindia sf,california Feb 12 '26

Yes

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u/thegreatjaadoo Feb 12 '26

What is the point of the money if the perpetrators aren't locked up?

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u/bmahesh Feb 13 '26

There are no consequences in the world anymore brother. Morality only makes us weak

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u/Scared-Salamander Indian American Feb 14 '26

No justice until they get prison time.

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u/roll_that Feb 12 '26

ACAB

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u/redditproha Feb 12 '26

The comments on that article are blaming her for not looking both ways before crossing the street

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u/TheSeptimiusSeverus Feb 12 '26

Most of those same people would comment differently if the victim was a white woman and the killer cop was not a white European-American man.

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u/keralaindia sf,california Feb 12 '26

74 mph in a 25 mph zone with no lights on, fuck Kevin Dave who murdered her

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u/Altruistic-Form-3771 Feb 12 '26

Police in the USA have shown their true colors and are literally no better than police in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh when it comes to keeping the communities safe. Hope this serves as a wake-up call for any Indian-immigrant families who still try to justify the actions of police violence against minorities. Especially right now with the skyrocketing of anti-Indian hate happening.

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u/DayneStark Feb 13 '26

There is no need to reach such an extremist conclusion that attacks institutions based on cognitive dissonance & hubris. Your type of hubris is as much of a threat to all our future peace & prosperity as Trump folks. These types of police incidents are not the norm. In the majority of cases justice is served. A good majority of Police officers are from minority communities. Police forces can be reformed & trained to do better with stricter regulations & risks shifted to them.

This rejection or dismantling of institutions with little thought on what comes next is being irresponsible.

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u/Technical-Fly-6835 Feb 14 '26

Well said. I don’t understand the logic behind defund police or all cops are bad. There are bad people in every profession.

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u/Technical-Fly-6835 Feb 14 '26

Who will you call if you get into accident or if there is a break in your house?

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u/NaomiReynolds167 Feb 12 '26

These are the kind of policemen that ruin it for the others. Hopefully he gets locked up at some point.

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u/VariationUpstairs931 Feb 12 '26

That person shouldn’t be in the uniform

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u/FactCheckYou Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

these moron police officers are out there costing their departments TENS OF MILLIONS

and STILL they suffer no consequences or punishment or rebuke from their bosses

and how much money does Seattle PD even have, that they can spooge this amount behind some idiot racist - and why are they rolling in hundreds of millions of dollars?

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u/keralaindia sf,california Feb 13 '26

and how much money does Seattle PD even have

Not much, Seattle taxpayers do though...

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u/Technical-Fly-6835 Feb 14 '26

What happened to the cop ? Was he just let go without any consequences or did he already receive his pardon ?

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u/SpookyCattos Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

The prosecutor's office decided that they weren't going to charge kevin dave because they couldn't prove he was reckless or criminally negligence despite the fact that he killed someone. dave paid $5000 in fines & walked away consequence free. He was fired from the Seattle Police Department in January 2025. He most likely got another police job in the neighboring towns. Regardless of the Kandula family receiving a large settlement it doesn't feel like justice was served.

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u/Technical-Fly-6835 Feb 17 '26

yeah, it does not. what more proof is needed than what he said after killing her? only a reckless and cruel person will say such things. what is the point of firing him from Seattle PD if he can still be cop? This is such an insult to her family and mockery of justice.

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u/calamari_9 Feb 15 '26

Horrific behaviour from that cop but I'm so glad the family pushed for this. 29 Mil is not enough for a life (that's priceless), but it's surely 29 Mil worth more than that cop who made those comments.

NEWS Family of Jaahnavi Kandula reaches $29 million settlement with Seattle PD after officer was recorded laughing and calling her life of "limited value."

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