Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, has sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, saying that she “lives in fear that she or her children” will see unauthorized photos taken by deputies at the site of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, their daughter Gianna and seven others.

The lawsuit, which was filed on Sept. 17, alleges that “no fewer than eight sheriff’s deputies at the crash site pulled out their personal cellphones and snapped photos of the dead children, parents and coaches.” The photos, the suit said, were taken for “their own personal gratification,” rather than for official law enforcement purposes.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of Ms. Bryant’s privacy. It comes four months after Ms. Bryant filed a claim against the Sheriff’s Department, a precursor to a lawsuit.

Ms. Bryant says in the lawsuit that the day of the Jan. 26 crash, she personally asked Sheriff Alex Villanueva to designate a no-fly zone over the crash site and to secure it from photographers to protect the families’ privacy.

Source: New York Times

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