alphacyberrangerBodycam shows Seattle cop joking about "limited value" of 26 year old woman killed by his police cruiser. He also joked about writing it off as a cheque worth $11000.
toryThis part of the article seems super important to read:
“I intended the comment as a mockery of lawyers,” Auderer wrote, according to KTTH. “I laughed at the ridiculousness of how these incidents are litigated and the ridiculousness of how I watched these incidents play out as two parties bargain over a tragedy.”
The station reported that Auderer acknowledged in the statement that anyone listening to his side of the conversation alone “would rightfully believe I was being insensitive to the loss of human life.” The comment was “not made with malice or a hard heart,” he said, but “quite the opposite.”
So his current claim is that he wasn’t mocking the victim, he was mocking the process of trying to get justice for victims and holding the police to account.
First responders have to develop a bit of a callous to gruesome scenes, because those that don’t end up not being able to do the job.
The humor is likely a facade that exists to protect him and those around him from the reality of an unfortunate situation that they can not change.
If you’ve ever spent time with EMTs, you will know what I’m talking about. Those guys do not get paid enough and joke about everything in all the worst ways. Still, if you ever get one of them drunk and pry about something they glossed over, they’re as likely to cry as to keep cracking jokes.
It isn’t a good look, but these guys are still human.
Definitely. I knew one guy who was an EMT. He was very casual about it unless he was drinking.
QuokkaThis was a cop “union” leader, not a first responder.
janWilejanYou don't need to develop a callous to gruesome scenes if you don't cause gruesome scenes.
"unfortunate situation that they can not change" except by not driving over people at 70mph.
Don't conflate cops with EMTs. The job of EMTs is to save lives.
Tell that to the women and children living in ukraine.
I asked you to not conflate cops that kill innocent people with EMTs that save people and your response is to conflate cops that kill innocent people with women and children in ukraine? Really?
Nice goalpost move!
My response was to your callous comment.