Yahoo Autos Vanessa Bryant says she feels 'sick' and 'extreme sadness and anger' knowing Kobe and Gianna crash scene photos were shared by LA County officials
In an emotional declaration, Vanessa Bryant said she lives in constant fear of crash photos surfacing.
"This conduct has caused me tremendous pain and distress," Bryant said in the declaration.
Bryant said that Google sometimes auto-suggests "Kobe Bryant crash pictures" and "Kobe Bryant body."
In a new declaration submitted by Vanessa Bryant in her case against LA County, Bryant said she felt "sick" and "extreme sadness and anger," when she learned that officers had taken and shared photos from her husband and daughter's helicopter crash site.
"This conduct has caused me tremendous pain and distress," Bryant said in the declaration, which accompanied a motion filed in opposition to the County's request to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that photos were permanently deleted.
"It infuriates me that the people I trusted to protect the dignity of my husband and daughter abused their positions to obtain souvenirs of their deaths, as though possessing pictures of their remains somehow makes them special," Bryant said: "I imagine Kobe watching over what occurred at that crash scene, and I am overcome with anger and emotion."
"I also feel extreme sadness and anger knowing that photos of my husband's and daughter's bodies were laughed about while shown at a bar and an awards banquet," Bryant wrote.
In September of last year, Vanessa Bryant sued Los Angeles County, its fire department, sheriff's department, and eight individual sheriff's officers following reports that first responders took and shared photos of the gruesome crash site where Kobe and her daughter Gianna "Gigi" Bryant and seven others died in January 2020.
Bryant sued the County for negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and invasion of her right to privacy.
