Vanessa Bryant, the widow of the late basketball player Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash two and a half years ago with her daughter and seven other people, decided to sue Los Angeles County for failing to secure the crash site at the time. that occurred, allowing trespassers, including some firefighters, to take photographs of the crash site, including the bodies of her husband and daughter and some body parts at the crash site.

Vanessa Bryant had asked the Los Angeles authorities to take action against the people who took the photos to limit their dissemination to people outside the investigation of the helicopter crash. In an official statement from December 2021, Vanessa Bryant said: “I am infuriated that the people I trust to protect the dignity of my husband and daughter have abused their positions to obtain mementos of their deaths, as if possessing photographs of his remains were somehow made”. special. I feel bad that the officers and firefighters looked at photos of my husband and my baby’s body for no reason.”