Kobe Bryant crash photos were shared by deputies as ‘gossip’, court hears

• Los Angeles county subject of invasion of privacy trial
• Officials shared graphic images of crash that killed nine

An institutional culture of callousness" led Los Angeles county deputies and firefighters to shoot and share photos of the remains of Kobe Bryant and other victims of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the Lakers star, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others, a lawyer for Bryant's widow told a jury on Wednesday.

Vanessa Bryant's attorney Luis Li told jurors in his opening statement in her invasion of privacy trial against the county that the cellphone photos shot at the crash scene by a deputy and a fire captain were visual gossip" viewed for a laugh" and had no official purpose.