In a conversation with Mike Solan, the head of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild, Seattle Police Department officer and SPOG vice president Daniel Auderer minimized the killing of 23-year-old student Jaahnavi Kandula by police officer Kevin Dave and joked that she had “limited value” as a “regular person” who was only 26 years old.

In fact, as we reported exclusively, Dave was driving 74 miles an hour in a 25 mile per hour zone and struck Kandula while she was attempting to cross the street in a marked and well-lighted crosswalk.

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    Can’t expect anything different from the police when both major parties will do nothing meaningful to hold them accountable. You want change? You have to vote for it.

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      o yea, lets choose between geriatric fascism or decrepid neoliberalism that oughtta change eveything

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            Might as well, really. Most people in this country experience no meaningful difference in their life regardless of who we elect.

            And they know it, which is why so many don’t bother.

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              Most people in this country don’t NOTICE the effect they experience based on who gets voted in. ftfy🙃

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              That is the most privileged take I’ve ever seen. I know people who’ve had to move states because of transphobia.

              Does it even matter if it affects most people or just some people? If 10% of people need to flee their state or 37% go into poverty because of conservative laws, most people are still fine. That doesn’t make their situations acceptable.

              A cornerstone of socially left policy is standing up for minorities and fighting for them to have equal civil rights. By definition, a minority is not “most people”.

              If you consider yourself left of center, you need to do some introspection. You can’t write off a minority and still consider yourself on the left.

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      It’s not about the voting, at least not directly. It’s about the cost of hiring and maintaining a police force, and the kind of person who would be willing to be a police officer for low pay, versus the type that would want high pay for the same position, and how that affects city budgets.

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        High pay doesn’t help. There are a lot of very high paying police departments and they’re just as corrupt and violent as the others.

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      Neither of the two parties will deliver

      Vote

      Lmao