RIP Kobe Bryant

So did the perps from the LA sheriff's department suffer any consequences?
Because the citizens of LA county did.

 

MileHigh said it eloquently but I’ll add this

The civil court system has two ways to collect damages: compensatory and punitive. The first makes you whole based on what you lost. The second is punishment. The payout was anticipating the punitive damages the Bryant family was likely going to win and saving the county the hassle of a trial.

EDIT: Another trial. Part of the settlement is what they were forced to pay from the federal suit.

Regardless of the Bryants means, do you think LA County—or any country in the US—is going to allow anything like this to happen again? The first responders fucked up and the Bryants had the means to make them pay for it and make it so painful, they will likely never do it again for anyone. And that’s the point. You don’t go into lawsuit because you are trying to get rich unless you’re committing fraud.

 

Looks like at least the firefighters lost their jobs (probably). I can’t find what happened to the deputies. In any other job, if you cost your employer millions of dollars, you’re out of that job. The deputies were probably promoted because we do things ass backwards when it comes to law enforcement.

Firefighters to be fired in Kobe Bryant helicopter crash scene photo scandal, court docs say

 

Yeah, "planned to fire" the firefighters is a long way from firefighters actually losing their job. Unions are powerful.

So as far as we know, subject to us finding anything else, no perps have suffered anything, but the citizens of LA County have.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department planned to terminate the employment of two firefighters and suspend a third for allegedly taking graphic photos at the scene of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and sharing them with their wives and girlfriends, according to court documents filed this week.

 

Of course the appropriate punishment would be massive fines against the individual perpetrators, termination from their jobs, along with public identification and wide distribution of their actions.

 

LOL, at least one firefighter 'retired'. I'm betting with some sort of disability payment because of all the stress he endured.
Retired Firefighter Testifies in Vanessa Bryant Lawsuit Over Crash Site Photos – NBC Los Angeles

Holy crap, I didn't read far enough down...

Before he could be terminated from his job, Jordan retired early in 2021, citing his mental health, court papers show. Steven Haney, Jordan's attorney, wrote in a filing that his client was “simply obeying orders'' when he snapped the photos at the scene of the Jan. 26, 2020, crash.

 

I think that Vanessa and the financial advisor are ghouls.

 

Undoubtedly the first responders were indeed directed by their superiors and departmental procedures to photograph the scene, including disturbing details. That is routine, regardless of the identity of the victims.
What happened to those images after they were taken is the problem.

 

That fucking ghoul Vanessa also got her pound of flesh from the pilot's estate. At this time, I am not sure if she's sued the Colorado hotel worker yet.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ful-death-lawsuit-over-kobe-crash/5315097001/

 

You have to sue the pilot to get to the operator.

I thought the settlement today was over the photos.

Btw the issue isn’t taking them, it’s that those first responders are entrusted with access to such information and are entrusted to do the right thing with them not share with your squeeze.

 

So what was the fucking point? They ran shuttles to and from Catalina.

Thanks, Cap'n Obvious.

I guarantee you first responders around here still share pictures of these gruesome scenes. But because of Ms. Bryant's brave lawsuits, I am sure they are now more discreet.