Indian American leaders are calling for justice after a Seattle police officer said 23-year-old Jaanhavi Kandula, a student at Northeastern University, had 'limited value.'
Indian American leaders are calling for justice after a Seattle police officer said 23-year-old Jaanhavi Kandula, a student at Northeastern University, had "limited value."After footage was released this week of a Seattle police officer saying 23-year-old Jaanhavi Kandula’s life “had limited value” on the night of her death, those who knew and loved her want the world to know that the opposite is true.
At Northeastern University’s Seattle campus, where Kandula had been pursuing a master’s degree, students and staff struggled to contend with what they heard in the recording. “She kept her head up, she made friends, and she became popular on the Seattle campus because of everything she was doing,” he said.As a woman studying software engineering, she was in the minority at school, Bugrara said. During one of their last interactions, Bugrara recalls her trying to convince him to bring more classes from the university’s flagship Boston campus to Seattle.statement“Jaahnavi was a brilliant student with a bright future,” they said.
Niranjan Srungavarapu, president of the Telugu Association of North America, helped coordinate the repatriation of Kandula’s body in January. He said listening to the way she was described by officers undoubtedly stung for other South Asians, specifically those who share Kandula’s Telugu identity.Srungavarapu said that among immigrants there is already a fear of dealing with authorities, and incidents like this only worsen that.
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