RIP Kobe Bryant

Name them publicly.

 

I do think government entities should be required to publish an annual list of insurance payouts due to public employees' malfeasance. Shoot, public employees compensation is public info. Not saying they keep things hush-hush, but an annual list and breakdown by public employee sector would be interesting reading.

 

In no way am I defending what the deputies did, but that’s a batshit amount of money to pay to a family who already had 9 figures in assets.

 

Around $50 million in settlements to the crash families...the taxpayers have to make sure to hold each and every one of those fuckers accountable for that bullshit.

 

The deputies didn’t cause the crash. They were awful and sent out pictures of the accidents. In no way can anyone rationally explain how that is worth over $28mm to a family which is multi-generationally wealthy.

 

Assets not in question, IMO. Dignity of the family, first and foremost. Then family rights. I think common families who have their deceased love ones put on public display from police brutality to a highway accident should be rewarded. Stop the macabre posting. And punish the ultimate sinners. I'm actually asking here, what happened to privacy rights, if you're not a public figure to start?

 

With all respect to you family’s loss, which despite the fact that we’ve never met, impacted me even though I don’t know your name and we only know each other, if at all, because we post on this stupid message board. In my opinion, this is a crazy amount of money going to a family which candidly does not even begin to need it. I understand that the assholes who shared these pictures should be punished but it seems to me fairly icky that all of it goes to family which by any metric does not need the money.

 

Not the point.
They could be worth 10 dollars or 10 billion.

 

MileHigh, I’m going to add a comment that supports your argument, but I don’t mean this to disturb you. Apologies in advance and continued condolences.


None of us (to my knowledge) have seen these photos.

It’s one thing to photodocument a crash site: the fuselage from a distance, debris, anything that indicates the path of the vehicle.

I’ve recently been watching a really good YT channel on aircraft incidents, and the investigators’ early priority is to “identify the four corners” of the aircraft: where is the left wingtip, right wingtip, nose and tail. Same applies to helicopters, with added emphasis in locating all the rotors.

Now, there is a very HUGE difference between photodocumenting a crash scene for investigation and what apparently happened here. This sounds like a few responders took their smartphone cameras, crammed them into the interior of the wreckage and took up close photos of the victims.

No family should be subjected to that.

Furthermore, learning that the photos were circulated is a further damage to the families.

Regardless of who the victims are here, hopefully this case helps curtail this BS in the future.

And often big payouts are needed to make sure that lessons learned are truly LESSONS LEARNED.