“Yeah, just write a check,” the Seattle officer and union leader said of his colleague who ran over a student. He now claims he was just making fun of lawyers.
a statement by Auderer given to the city’s Office of Police Accountability that the station managed to obtain. “I intended the comment as a mockery of lawyers. 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,” he said.
from the Seattle Police Department, an employee obtained and listened to the audio “in the routine course of business.” The unnamed employee was “concerned about the nature of [Auderer’s] statements” and directed the audio to the chief’s office, which then sent the audio to the Office of Police Accountability.
to NBC that her office received the complaint about Auderer’s comments on Aug. 2 and an investigation is underway.The Seattle Community Police Commission, a local oversight group, characterized Auderer’s comments as “heartbreaking and shockingly insensitive” in a statement earlier this week.
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