I wasn't aware of this very sad situation: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-cries-crash-photos-wants-justice/7846598001/ Kobe Bryant's widow, Vanessa, testifies at crash photos trial: 'I can't escape what I feel' LOS ANGELES – Vanessa Bryant broke down and cried on the witness stand here Friday in federal court, wiping her eyes and struggling though much of her testimony as she described her reaction to a troubling discovery in February 2020. She remembers it vividly. She was in a game room watching television with her family and friends when another friend called her to share the news: Gruesome photos of her deceased daughter and husband, Kobe, the NBA legend, had apparently been taken and shared after they died in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26, 2020. Two days after the accident, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy trainee even showed grisly crash scene photos to a bartender at a Mexican restaurant. “I bolted out of the house, and I ran to the side of the house so my girls couldn’t see me,” Bryant testified. “And I broke down and cried and just felt like I wanted to run. I just wanted to run down the block and just scream… like wanting to run down the pier and just taking your clothes off and running and jumping into the ocean. But the problem is I just can’t escape. I can’t escape my body. I can’t escape what I feel.” This was Day 8 of Bryant’s civil trial against Los Angeles County, arguably the biggest day of the trial so far because it was the first day the jury of five men and four women heard from Bryant and the county sheriff, Alex Villanueva. Bryant brought this case to trial after suing the county and accusing county sheriff’s and fire department employees of taking grisly close-up photos of human remains from the crash scene despite having no legitimate business reason for doing so................
Hopefully, $31m will help Vanessa, et al, escape a little easier. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/us/vanessa-bryant-la-county-trial/index.html Jury awards plaintiffs $31M in lawsuit over Kobe Bryant crash photos
