The latest #JusticeForJaahnaviKandula march
A rally to honor the life of Jaahnavi Kandula started in the heart of the Chinatown International District on Saturday, yet ended with a broader goal and call for police accountability within the Seattle Police Department. https://t.co/7FTaKTjZA5
— KING 5 News (@KING5Seattle) September 24, 2023
Small rant for the Twitterati / Xpeeps complaining that the march looks like a lot of white people from antifa:
1. There is no way Officers Dave and Arderer would have had any way of knowing anything more than a pedestrian was hit at the time of the crash, possibly more about her ethnicity as the investigation proceeded.
2. Officer Arderer's video has has gone viral, as have many details of the accident. There are plenty of citations in Indian media outlets. The Indian consulate in San Francisco and the US State Department have taken notice. PLENTY of people care specifically about the death of #JaahnaviKandula.
3. Both the circumstances of the death and many police accountability issues have elements in common with other pedestrian deaths and police investigations in Seattle. Presumably most people marching in the streets about these concerns also care about the very capitalist point about how damaging preventable traffic deaths and sloppy police accountability practices are to Indian families' willingness to send their children to study in the US
But, But, isn't cops investigating themselves part of the problem?
Guardian: A cop said a woman killed by police had little value
NDTV We need to show them we are united
Bay Area holds vigil for woman whose death was mocked
P Gurus Jaahnavi Kandula Untimely death
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