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A Seattle police oversight group has recommended that Daniel Auderer, the officer who was heard laughing and making insensitive remarks about an Indian woman’s death, be put on unpaid leave, according to reports. Driving the news: Auderer, who serves as vice president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG), is currently under investigation by the Office of Police Accountability (OPA) for his controversial comments about Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student who was fatally struck by a speeding police car in January.

Seattle Police officer Kevin Dave was speeding at 74 mph in a 25 mph zone on Dexter Avenue North in Seattle on Jan. 23 when he smashed into pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula, knocking her body 100 feet and killing her.  Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student from Andhra Pradesh, India, was attending…

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SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s Community Police Commission on Wednesday recommended that the city’s police chief suspend without pay an officer under investigation for making callous remarks about the death of a woman from India who was struck by a police SUV in a crosswalk.

Seattle's Community Police Commission (CPC) is urging Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz to put an officer on unpaid leave indefinitely following comments he made on body cam footage that appears to mock the death of a woman who was hit and killed by another officer earlier this year.