The footage was captured on his body camera while he had made a call to a colleague.
“But she is dead,” the officer was heard saying before laughing. “No, it’s a regular person. Yeah, just write a cheque,” he said, before laughing again.
“Eleven thousand dollars. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value,” he added.
The video was widely circulated on social media and sparked outrage online.
On Wednesday, Seattle Police Department’s interim chief Sue Rahr announced the policeman’s termination through a department-wide email.
His actions had brought shame on the entire department and the police profession, she wrote.
Interim chief Rahr added that his “cruel and callous laughter” and the pain it had inflicted on Kandula’s family could not…
