The lawsuit alleges that sheriff's deputies shared cellphone photos of the victims of the helicopter crash, including the NBA star and his teenage daughter.
Vanessa Bryant filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, alleging that several deputies took and shared cellphone photos of the helicopter crash site where her husband, Kobe Bryant, and their 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, died along with seven others in January.accuses at least eight deputies of taking photos of the victims at the crash site with their personal cellphones and showing them to their colleagues, and in one instance, a member of the public.
"The gratuitous images soon became talked about within the Department, as deputies displayed them to colleagues in settings that had nothing to do with investigating the accident," the lawsuit states. One deputy allegedly used his photos to try to impress a woman at a bar as he bragged about how he had been at the crash site, the lawsuit adds, citing a bartender who overheard the interaction and filed a complaint with the sheriff's department.The site of a helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna Bryant, and seven others in Calabasas on Jan. 26, 2020.The sheriff's department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Vanessa Bryant also accuses Sheriff Alex Villanueva of engaging in a"cover-up" by failing to secure the photos and stop them from being shared.
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