New details have emerged during Thursday’s hearing in Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit against Los Angeles County for the gruesome pictures they took of her husband and daughter’s remains at the crash site, which caused her severe emotional distress.
Kobe Bryant’s widow is expected to take the stand this Friday and give her testimony.
“There’s no doubt that you knew and those exhibits should have been disclosed,” Judge Walter told LA County’s attorneys just now. So, they’re getting the exhibits over to Vanessa’s attorneys right now.
Break almost over then Paul Westhead Jr. takes the stand, then Chris Chester.
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) August 18, 2022
LACFD supervisor wanted the Kobe Bryant’s crash photos to be deleted
Los Angeles County Fire Department’s official Sky Cornell, who worked under the public information officer Anthony Joseph “Tony” Imbrenda at the time of the crash, testified in court that one of his bosses referenced the photos as ‘plutonium’ and urged everyone to delete them.
“That stuff is plutonium. If you have any, you should get rid of them”, Imbrenda told Cornell.
He added that Imbrenda received the images and he’d later seen them on a supervisor’s phone while they were at a ceremony weeks later.
When it was clear that the pictures were being shared amongst the officials, the supervisors told everybody to delete them as soon as possible, according to Cornell.
I pray Vanessa Bryant wins her case against LA County.
— A. (@ARelz_) August 11, 2022
LACFD official admits to taking Kobe Bryant’s crash photos as evidence
LACFD official, Arlin Kahan testified that he was the one that took the photos of Kobe Bryant’s crash scene to send them to Imbrenda, and claims that he did it with the sole purpose of documenting the incident rather tan take pictures of human remains.
He added that his intention was to delete the graphic evidence once the investigation had concluded
We also heard from Sky Cornell and Arlin Kahan, @LACOFD captains. Cornell denies saying the crass comment at the #GoldenMikes about seeing Kobe’s burnt body. Kahan denies moving sheets to photograph human remains but says some were partially covered.
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) August 18, 2022
