Kobe Bryant’s widow, Vanessa Bryant, said Saturday the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department wants to edit the names of deputies who allegedly took photos on the helicopter crash in which her husband, daughter and seven others died.
“The sheriff’s department wants to change the names of the delegates who took and / or shared photos of my husband, daughter and other victims,” she wrote in an Instagram story on Saturday afternoon.
Her lawyers filed an amended complaint this week against four deputies of the sheriff in LA County, claiming they took photos of the helicopter crash and the remains of Kobe Bryant and 13-year-old Gianna Bryant, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, wife Vanessa and daughter Natalia Diamante Bryant are spotted ahead of a Connecticut-UCLA NCAA women’s basketball game in Los Angeles, November 21, 2017. (Associated Press)
Lawyers argue that removing the names of the deputies would reveal their addresses and other personal information, according to the newspaper it could be targets for hackers and others who want to harm them.
The Department of Homeland Security is urging police officers nationwide to increase their online security for fear of being targeted by dox tactics, The Associated Press reported last year.
The DHS report said the agency “has medium confidence that cybercriminals will likely continue to target law enforcement.”
Forty-three law enforcers were killed in the service last year, and another 43 people died the previous year.
Vanessa Bryant argued on Saturday that “anyone else facing allegations will be unprotected, nominated and released to the public.”
“Not all law enforcers are bad,” she wrote. “These specific deputies, like everyone else, must be held accountable for their actions.”
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She originally sued the sheriff’s department in LA in September and demanded damages for negligence, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Alex County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said last year that he was ordering eight deputies to remove graphic images they had taken at the scene of the crash.
“It was my number one priority, it was to make sure the photos no longer exist,” Villanueva told NBC News in March. “We identified the delegates involved, they came to the station on their own and admitted that they had taken it and that they had removed it. And we are pleased that those involved did so.”
Gavin Newsom, governor of California, signed a bill in September that makes it an offense to be the first responder to take photos of a crime scene for any reason other than official law enforcement.
Firefighters are working on the scene of a helicopter crash where former NBA star Kobe Bryant died in Calabasas, California, on January 26, 2020. (Associated Press)”/>
Firefighters are working at the scene of a helicopter crash where former NBA star Kobe Bryant died in Calabasas, California, on January 26, 2020. (Associated Press)
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Kobe Bryant, his daughter and six other people were on their way to a Mamba Sports Academy in Ventura County on a cloudy January morning last year when the helicopter in which they were flying crashed on a hill in Calabasas, northwest of Los Angeles. has.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators said in a report earlier this month that pilot Ara Zobayan lost his army when he flew through the clouds and thought he was climbing when he actually banked.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.