

The helicopter slammed into a Calabasas hillside in dense fog on Jan. He finished testifying just before Bryant took the stand.īryant and Chester have alleged that the photos that deputies and firefighters took and disseminated amounted to negligence and invasion of privacy. Chris Chester - whose wife, Sarah, and daughter, Payton, were killed in the crash - has also sued the county. County over graphic images of the crash scene that were taken and shared by sheriff’s deputies and firefighters.
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“My husband and my daughter deserve dignity.”īryant’s appearance came on the eighth day of a trial in her federal lawsuit against L.A. “I expected them to have more compassion - respect,” Bryant testified. Once she found a spot where her other three daughters could not hear her, she said, “I broke down and cried, and I wanted to run down the block and just scream.”īryant, who repeatedly burst into tears on the witness stand, said she felt betrayed by deputies she had trusted to protect her family.

“I bolted out of the house,” Vanessa Bryant testified Friday in federal court in Los Angeles. A few days after the 2020 memorial for Kobe Bryant, the basketball star’s widow, Vanessa, was at home watching TV with family when she learned that Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies had shared gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband and the couple’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna.
