WATCH: 'Insensitive' Police officer caught laughing at Indian student killed in accident by cop car

Police administration in Seattle have initiated a detailed probe against several leaders of the police union after a video of a cop went viral in which he was clearly heard making fun of a 23-year-old woman of Indian origin who tragically lost her life after being hit by a police vehicle. In the video, Officer Daniel Auderer discusses the investigation into the accident involving Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student at Northeastern University’s Seattle campus, who was fatally struck by his colleague, Officer Kevin Dave, on January 23. In the footage, Auderer can be heard callously stating, “She is dead,” followed by unsettling laughter, and referring to Kandula as “a regular person.” His insensitivity continues as he jests, amid fits of laughter, “Yeah, just write a check. Eleven thousand dollars.” To add to the insensitivity, he inaccurately states her age, concluding with, “She was 26 anyway, she had limited value.”

After the video went viral, the Seattle Community Police Commission (CPC) released a statement Monday, expressing their dismay at the conversation between Auderer and his colleague. They described it as “heartbreaking and shockingly insensitive,” emphasizing that the people of Seattle deserve better from a police department entrusted with building trust within the community and ensuring public safety. Meanwhile, the Seattle Police Department, in the pursuit of transparency, released the video but refrained from commenting on the matter until the Police Accountability Office concludes its investigation into the incident. Kandula hailed from Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh. At the time of her death Seattle police department issued a statement revealing that the officer operating the marked patrol SUV was responding to a “priority one call” while traveling northbound on Dexter Avenue North. She was hit when she was crossing the road. Initially, Auderer reported that the officer was driving at a speed of 50 MPH and was not “out of control.” However, a subsequent police investigation determined that the vehicle was traveling at 74 MPH when it hit Kandula. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office cited multiple blunt-force injuries as the cause of her tragic demise. Kandula, a student at the Northeastern University campus in South Lake Union, was on track to earn a master’s degree in information systems in December.