Lilly Singh Instagram – THIS IS NOT OKAY. And you need to know about it. TW: death, police injustice Jaahnavi Kandula was struck and killed in January, by a speeding police officer while crossing a crosswalk, yet the investigation into her death is JUST starting. And to be clear, it is only starting because a department employee recently flagged comments captured on the a body cam during the incident concerning. Not only did the officer responsible laugh after stating the pedestrian was dead, but the response from his superior was, “Yeah, just write a check. Eleven thousand dollars. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.” The officers involved are Kevin Dave and Officer Daniel Auderer. Jaahnavi was a student at Northeastern University’s Seattle campus and was 3 months away from graduation. She was studying abroad to support her single mother back home in India. She had an entire life to live. I’d like to thank @hindusamata @theswaddle for bringing this news onto my timeline, because otherwise I had not heard anything about this tragic event. Whenever innocent lives are lost, is it heartbreaking and tragic. But this particular incident is infuriating for me, because I have been becoming intimately familiar with all the challenges girls in India face. To know that Jaahnavi did what only a small percentage of girls in India have the opportunity to do, which is get an education and that too abroad, but have her life taken and dismissed in this way is simply heartbreaking and unjust to the highest degree. At what point does the world stop dismissing the value of girls and women, specifically Indian girls and women? Do you know what has no value? The patriarchal and racist systems that uphold this kind of gross thinking because it factually and statistically holds us all back. I’m sorry Jaahnavi. You deserved better. Sending so much love to her family. And demanding #JusticeForJaahnavi If you have the capacity to, please share.