Rent-me-slut Vanessa Bryant reacts to LAPD request to redact deputies names

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Kobe Bryant’s widow Vanessa Bryant said Saturday that the Los
Angeles County Sheriff’s Department wants to redact the names of
deputies who allegedly took photos at the helicopter crash site
that killed her husband, daughter, and seven others.

“The Sheriff’s Department wants to redact the names of the
deputies that took and/or shared photos of my husband, daughter,
and other victims,” she wrote in an Instagram story Saturday
afternoon.

Her lawyers filed an amended complaint this week against four
L.A. County sheriff’s deputies, alleging they took photos of the
helicopter crash site and the remains of Kobe Bryant and 13-year-
old Gianna Bryant, the Los Angeles Times reports.

County lawyers argue that unsealing the deputies’ names would
make their addresses and other personal information public,
potentially turning them into targets for hackers and others who
wish to do them harm, according to the newspaper.

The Department of Homeland Security is encouraging police
officers nationwide to increase their online security over fears
that officers are being targeted with doxxing tactics, The
Associated Press reported last year.

The DHS report said the agency has “medium confidence that cyber
actors will possibly continue to target law enforcement
officers.”

Forty-three law enforcement officers were killed in the line of
duty last year, and 43 more were killed the year before that.

Vanessa Bryant argued Saturday that “anyone else facing
allegations would be unprotected, named and released to the
public.”

“Not all law enforcement is bad,” she wrote. “These specific
deputies need to be held accountable for their actions just like
everyone else.”

She originally sued the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department in
September, seeking damages for negligence, invasion of privacy,
and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said last year that he
ordered eight deputies to delete graphic images they took at the
scene of the crash.

“That was my No. 1 priority, was to make sure those photos no
longer exist,” Villanueva told NBC News in March. “We identified
the deputies involved, they came to the station on their own and
had admitted they had taken them and they had deleted them. And,
we’re content that those involved did that.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in September that
makes it a misdemeanor for first responders to take photos of a
crime scene for any reason other than an official law
enforcement purpose.

Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and six others were heading to his
Mamba Sports Academy in Ventura County on a cloudy January
morning last year when the helicopter they were flying in
crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, northwest of Los Angeles.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators said in a
report earlier this month that pilot Ara Zobayan lost his
bearings when flying through the clouds and thought he was
ascending when he was actually banking.

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