After the death of former basketball player Kobe Bryant, in 2020, in a helicopter accident, his widow, Vanessa Bryant, had been horrified by the conduct of some police officers and firefighters who photographed bodies and disclosed. Now, three years later, she will receive compensation of around BRL 150 million from the lawsuit she filed at the time.
According to the Mirror, it was her lawyer who broke the news. “Today marks the culmination of Ms. Bryant’s courageous battle to hold accountable those who engaged in this grotesque conduct. She fought for her husband, her daughter and all those in the community whose deceased family was treated with the same disrespect,” he said.
In the accident, on January 26, 2020, in addition to Kobe, 41, Vanessa also lost her daughter Gianna, 13. The helicopter in which the former player was caught fire and crashed. The Calabasas fire department announced that the aircraft was carrying nine people in total.
In August of last year, a jury had already awarded the widow the equivalent of R$ 83 million in this lawsuit against Los Angeles County.
In the official complaint, Vanessa said that “the free images soon became talked about within the department, as the deputies showed them to colleagues in environments that had nothing to do with the investigation of the accident”. And that “a police officer even used photos of the victims to try to impress a woman in a bar, bragging about being at the scene of the accident”.
Source: Folha
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