вЂњBut she sued the County for something that didnвЂ™t happen. вЂњItвЂ™s horrific, the worst imaginable,вЂќ they said in the statement. Vanessa BryantвЂ™s attorneys, in filings submitted Friday, said the county is resorting to вЂњscorched-earth discovery tacticsвЂќ designed to bully her and the family members of other victims into вЂњabandoning their pursuit of accountability.вЂќДЄttorneys for Los Angeles County, in a statement Monday to The Associated Press, said the county has вЂњgreat sympathyвЂќ for BryantвЂ™s losses.

LA County attorneys wrote in court papers that such psychiatric examinations are вЂњnecessary to evaluate the nature and extentвЂќ of the familiesвЂ™ alleged injuries. The county contends that while the families вЂњhave undoubtedly suffered severe distress and trauma from the crash and resulting loss of their loved ones, their distress was not caused by (the first responders) or any accident site photos that were never publicly disseminated.вЂќ

The lawyers propose that the evaluations be audio- and video-recorded and last eight hours for adults and four to six hours for children. Vanessa Bryant secures another legal victory in battle over leaked Kobe crash photosДЄttorneys for Los Angeles County want the court to order Bryant and other family members of the people who were killed in the crash, including children, to undergo psychiatric evaluations as independent medical examinations. Bryant feels ill at the thought of strangers gawking at images of her deceased husband and child, and she lives in fear that she or her children will one day confront horrific images of their loved ones online,вЂќ court documents say. Gavin Newsom last year approved legislation prompted by the helicopter crash that makes it a crime for first responders to take unauthorized photos of deceased people at the scene of an accident or crime. None of the first responders were directly involved in the investigation of the crash or had any legitimate purpose in taking or passing around the grisly photos, the suit contends. Vanessa BryantвЂ™s lawsuit contends first responders, including firefighters and sheriffвЂ™s deputies, shared photographs of Kobe BryantвЂ™s body with a bartender and passed around вЂњgratuitous photos of the dead children, parents and coaches.вЂќ The Los Angeles Times first reported that a sheriffвЂ™s department internal investigation found deputies shared photos of victimsвЂ™ remains. Federal safety officials blamed pilot error for the wreck. 26, 2020, when the helicopter they were aboard, on their way to a girls basketball tournament, crashed in the hills west of Los Angeles amid foggy weather. Kobe Bryant and the others were killed Jan. Vanessa Bryant, whose federal lawsuit against the county alleges invasion of privacy, has claimed in court papers that she has experienced вЂњsevere emotional distressвЂќ that has compounded the trauma of losing her husband and 13-year-old daughter, Gianna. Los Angeles County is seeking to compel psychiatric evaluations for Kobe BryantвЂ™s widow and others to determine if they truly suffered emotional distress after first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the basketball star, his teenage daughter and seven others, court documents say.

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