After an 11-day trial, a Los Angeles federal jury on Wednesday ordered Los Angeles County to pay a combined total of $31 million to Bryant and an Orange County man who lost his daughter and wife in the crash for the mental anguish caused by photos sheriff’s deputies and firefighters took and shared of the crash victims’ bodies.
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Closing arguments are underway Tuesday in Vanessa Bryant’s civil rights lawsuit against Los Angeles County that is centered on the photos taken by first responders of the helicopter crash site that killed her husband, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, and daughter Gianna, along with seven others.
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A Los Angeles County firefighter Wednesday strongly denied claims that he displayed grisly photos of Kobe Bryant’s remains to colleagues at an awards banquet in February 2020, a month after the helicopter crash that killed the NBA star and eight others.
