>> Kobe Bryant's widow, Vanessa, is lashing out at the LA Sheriff. The sheriff's department
couldn't be trusted to secure Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash scene. His deputies took and
shared graphic photos of crash victims. >> This is Kobe Bryant's wife, Vanessa.
>> Their wild speculation is who the identities are.
However, it is being entirely inappropriate right now to identify anyone by name
until the coroner has made the identification. >> And LA County Sheriff, Alex Villanueva. When
Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi and seven others passed away in a tragic helicopter crash in the
hills of Calabasas, California, Alex Villanueva's deputies, at the crash site on January 26th, 2020,
allegedly took photos of the dead on their cell phones.
So Vanessa took matters into her own hands because as we have shared previously,
Villanueva and the police union fought to keep the names private. As always when the cops are
in the wrong, the unions have their backs. >> The training has to change in the police force,
the unions have to be taken down in the police force.
>> Yeah. What doc said. What makes this all truly disgusting is how Villanueva,
as an elected official, has tried to conceal as much evidence of wrongdoing
as he possibly can while continually deflecting the latest on this case,
absolutely stinks to high heaven, as is the norm. Los Angeles County is fighting Vanessa Bryan.
They are attacking her by saying she has no legal basis to sue four sheriff's deputies
alleged to have shared unauthorized photos taken at the site of the helicopter crash. This is when
the bodies were just found. Just deceased. Vanessa shared the names of the four officers, Joey Cruz,
Rafael Mejia, Michael Russell and Raul Vasales in a series of posts on her IG, screen shotting
documents from her lawsuit that outline how each of the deputies shared the photos.
Her public airing of deputies' identities follows a ruling by a federal judge last week,
that denied a request by them to keep their names and ranks under seal. LA County, specifically
Villanueva, despised how a judge ruled on their attempt to block Vanessa from outing these
officers publicly. Although, they maintained they took corrective personnel actions against
any employees who improperly shared photos, the actions taken by the county speaks volumes.
In the suit, Bryant seeks damages for negligence and invasion of privacy claims that a deputy
at the scene took between 25 and 100 photos, which had no conceivable investigatory purpose
and were focused directly on the victims' remains and showed the accident site images
to other government personnel. And to a friend who is a bartender in Norwalk.
According to the suit, Villanueva initially assured Bryant of privacy when she expressed
concerns just after the crash occurred. That trust was violated. However, the
county responded by saying, the county does not condone the showing of accident site photographs,
and has taken corrected personnel actions accordingly, the filing said, via USA today.
This does not mean, however, that plaintiff has viable legal claims. In short,
this is the county's warm up to what will likely happen further litigation.
Bryant's team is prepared. After all, Bryant and her attorney plan to conduct
more than 40 depositions, forensic examinations of electronic devices and cloud based storage
accounts in the possession of defendants and third parties and expert reports and depositions.
If you missed our previous video running through Vanessa Bryant's IG post,
we've put together a nice recap of the unjust actions officers took. In a nutshell, there was
no rhyme or reason for officers to do what they did. It was for clout amongst their friends.
It was for one officer to be the most popular patron at a local bar in Norwalk.
For others, it was mere gossip using the remains of dead children and parents to cling to,
look at what I do for a living. You can't tell anyone but
here's pictures from the crash site. Enjoy, remember me, here's the text.
The county will continue to fight this lawsuit because that is what they are paid to do.
Cover the tracks of officers and maintain the status quo.
Vanessa Bryant, meanwhile, doesn't have an F left to give and we're here for it.