Demonstrators in Seattle have demanded the resignation of two police officers over the death of a student from India and callous remarks by one of them
left his body-worn camera on
At the demonstration on Thursday, 5-year-old Layla Allibhai sat atop father Mo Allibhai’s shoulders while holding a sign saying: “I have unlimited value. So did Jaahnavi.”“I think this has galvanized people because it’s so blatant and disrespectful to put a value on a human’s life at $11,000,” Patricia Hunter, co-chair of the, said in an interview Friday. “And it galvanizes people to see that the culture at Seattle Police Department has some issues that need to be immediately addressed.
The Seattle Police Officers Guild said in a statement Friday that it understands the outrage caused by the “highly insensitive comments.” But the union noted that the bodycam footage captures only Auderer’s side of the conversation: “There is much more detail and nuance that has not been made public yet.”
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