0:00 [Music] kobe bryant right cody brown my boy mamba all right the mamba it was 8 24 i don't know when this video was coming out but it was 8 24 recently it was kobe day and one big big piece of news dropped on kobe day where a jury awarded vanessa bryant 16 million dollars over the crash photos that were taken of kobe and daughter gianna that were like leaked out by like you know police and firefighters and stuff like that all these grizzly photos that caused emotional trauma distress and damage to her whole family because people just wanted to go viral well i mean i mean it didn't not even like that just like the kind of way that like a normal dude would just go hey check this out i
0:50 got the kobe photos yeah you should well you shouldn't release those photos yeah you should that's ████ up they weren't even supposed to like acknowledge that they existed it wasn't supposed to leave the department so it was cops doing it who who paid who who paid the 16 million the city of l.a city of la yup kobe bryant's widow vanessa was awarded 16 million as part of a 31 million jury verdict wednesday against elliott county for deputies and firefighters sharing grisly photos of the nba star the 13 year old daughter gianna and other victims killed in a 2020 helicopter crash the nine jurors unanimously agreed with vanessa bryant and her attorneys that the photos invaded her privacy and caused emotional distress she cried quietly as the verdict was read but are they really getting punished though because that's just taxpayer money like it should come out of everyone involved because they have
1:41 to be penalized like the people that shared it did the did the actions like are there consequences for them like if they got fired or something yeah yeah or like or or did they get personally fined prob maybe they probably do get fired right because probably what they did is a breach someone got fired right now almost someone got fired everyone gets on paid leave because it was high ranking people wasn't it was like a sheriff's deputy and then the other person's like a fire chief or some ████ ████ are they doing like a fire captain can you imagine someone's like did you see those pictures like i don't know man john was trying to show me some ████ but i was definitely like i did not want to see it so i don't know what we were talking about that's the part that's scary right it's like she was saying that she will never know if it's out there or not oh that sucks yeah she says uh i haven't seen no pictures of it it says the
2:31 pictures were shared mostly among employees of the los angeles county sheriffs and fire departments including uh by some who were playing video games and attending an awards banquet they also were seen by some of their spouses and in one case by a bartender at a bar where a deputy was drinking how did they now how did their family know they were doing this did it start leaking online it says vanessa bryant tearfully testified during the 11 day trial that news of the photos compounded her still raw grief a month after the deaths of her husband and daughter and that she has has panic attacks at the thought that the photos might still be out there she said quote i live in fear every day of being on social media and these popping up she testified i live in fear of my daughters being on social media and these popping up her co-plaintiff chris chester whose wife and daughter were among the nine people killed in the
3:22 crash was awarded 15 million dollars we're grateful for a jury and a judge who gave us a fair trial he says vanessa's bryant's uh vanessa bryant's attorneys did not give jurors a dollar amount they thought their client deserved but chester's attorney gave them suggested guidelines that would that would have meant tens of millions for each plaintiff vanessa bryant and her attorney declined comment outside court wednesday her face was still shrieked with tears as she walked past tv cameras and dozens of reporters um her lawyer told jurors that the close-up photos had no official or investigative purpose and were mere quote visual gossip shared out of a gruesome curiosity that sucks man someone with an iphone on the scene yeah just snapping away because it wasn't like it was taken with the official city camera that you can't like take the ████ that's a 30 million it's not 16 that's a 30 million dollar ████ up by
4:13 some people on the damn but you are the police department it doesn't say anything about like you know the deputies the sheriffs because it look if anything based on off that information like now you've got possibly many people involved you know what i mean sheriff's deputies firefighters blah blah blah like a lot of random people that are in the system so it's like how do you how do you exact justice on them so the state the city governments everything right they have a slush fund with our tax money so like let's say you're paying they the way they collect taxes is if they have state income tax like from your income right they'll take like whatever percentage the state's gonna take and then the city takes ████ um or like through commerce like depending on what that state's rule is it could be from sales tax so like let's say you buy
5:05 food and then they stack on like eight percent so all this money goes to the city and it goes to the state right and then they pick and choose what they want to do with it a lot of them have a fund just for these issues like that like for lawsuits for whatever for scandal for hush money like they don't call it hush money but they call it like settling out of court because whenever there's sexual harassment rape some kind of ████ up ████ that politicians do um high level like people in office or in like fire department police department this is where the money comes from it's like the city had to pay this much money the it doesn't come out of anybody's pocket but the citizens who helped them save up for these ████ up things so that's that's just like s█████ to me because it's like no one there's
5:56 no consequences for them but i think it's supposed to impact how they move forward right like supposed to yeah i'm sure there's a whole time you know what boys clubs of things and how it's been treated forever i'm sure there's like polaroids or pictures of all kinds of crazy ████ from the history of time of ████ they did and they did this kind of ████ that's a culture of i mean i'm just making them in my head right culture of how things go but now when these things hit it's like the culture has to change we cannot yeah but if there's no clear like uh consequence yeah like burning these fools at the stake and and doing a public hanging yeah where it's clear that that society gets this consequential lesson for doing some sort of wrong or immoral practicing we don't know if they still working we don't know if they got moved to another department we don't know anything all the time i'm sure somebody knows i hope
6:48 they do i ████ hope they do the only thing this endorses to me is that if somebody kind of ████ up there's some sort of slush fund that i might be able to sue the city for yeah yeah and with other crazy like you know obviously i don't think vanessa bryant needs 16 more million or i don't know who the other guy was but i'm they probably all roll deep in a private helicopter i mean i don't know if that dude needs another 15 million either or not the fire chief who leaked it is already retired oh he was forced into retirement dude this s███'s gonna keep happening it's not gonna stop it's not i think honestly it's human nature like i got friends that are like police officers and stuff and when they see crazy ████ they just take pictures that's just like human nature yeah like when we see like two people going like yelling at a ████ football game you know we're just nosy but when you see the chat at least it's in their mind oh you don't share it like this is crazy like you might still have the human nature
7:39 jumping i mean you should already know better than not to do that but now you know for sure not to do that ████ but at the same time if you're a quote unquote like um a civilian a normal person right and then that's that's like a celebrity that did some ████ yeah but that's different because like let's say you saw the crash and you're some like farmer and you're like god dang it what the hell was that and then you run over there you're like oh my god still california oh calabasas like men and black in the beginning like a lot of people would probably do it when you think about but yeah if you're someone that's on the job yeah a cop or a farmer he's like you're supposed to be a better you're supposed to be perfect from a higher standard yeah yeah that's what it said that like they said that they ordered seven officers to take photos and that they have to do it in a certain specific manner that's consistent with
8:29 the values of you know the job and the guys that leaked it didn't do that so that's it that's kind of like if a surgeon was working on ████ a celebrity and he's like oh i can't believe i got the ████ titties of mariah carey and then they're taking photos and then they're like hey check it out you want to see some carry titties but he was really supposed to x-ray her molar yeah right right right it's not like you're some paparazzi you're a you're a doctor yeah so exactly uh county attorney jay mira hashmall argued during the trial that the photos were a necessary tool for assessing the situation and that's why the bartender had to see it too [Laughter] yeah she acknowledged that they should not have been shared with everyone who saw them but she emphasized that the photos had never appeared publicly and had never been seen by the plaintiffs
9:20 she said that uh that meant that sheriff alex villanueva and other officials had taken decisive and effective action when they ordered those who had the photos to delete them so yeah that's like yeah i might get that too like is it really 31 million dollars mistake or is it like a number let's fire your food people that are never gonna make 31 million dollars in their lifetime anyway yeah i'm just i'm just gonna fire six guys ████ it yeah i'm saying so it never it was never released the public that's i don't know but i'm curious how they even knew that these photos were circulating because someone had a whistle blow that yeah somebody probably did and then they launched an investigation and they found it i remember it being a big issue like the day that it happened yeah when it happened that was like as big as that was as big as holy ████ these photos were getting leaked everywhere and like it was even messing with the
10:10 investigation because now there's evidence something got leaked out or they could even make a conclusion on anything dude i remember when that day dude it was like that ████ ████ me up i was at the it's one of those days when you remember where you were yeah that's like 9 11 and michael jackson was the only other two times i've ever felt the pantry i was a little at the pantry downtown like the restaurant the restaurant the restaurant we were kicking and eating and then also i just saw everybody looking at their phone you know it's one of those moments we're like what the ████ we were at a business shop on their phone i was like let me just phone and it was like kobe i was like i'm so sad and you're like that's not real no let me see i was right i could see the staple center from where i was at and i was like i'm so sad that ████ your whole thing up yeah i was in a ████ meeting with the vp of one of the vps of nike wow and i was the ████ person who revealed the news to their team no because i got a text from my girl and then in the middle of this
11:00 ████ exec meeting at an old complex i just go [Music] and then i cut the ████ meeting off everybody and mike's like okay well you have to tell everybody now and it was just a capstocks and i was and i ████ struggled to find my breath because i didn't know what to say and i'm like looking at them all i'm like kobe bryant just died and the whole ████ meeting ended like they immediately started whispering amongst themselves they're like you guys understand like we have to and it just ████ shut the whole meeting down that's ████ crazy you ruined the meeting anthony lee he did you ruined your own opportunity yeah let's need his fault are we gonna reschedule this or no no last meeting we're out here
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