"Some of my photos had, like, a torso, another one had a leg, another one had a hand,'' he told the jury, one of whom is a nun. 28, 2020, he went to the Baja California Bar & Grill in Norwalk and showed his bartender friend crash site photos containing human remains stored on his personal cell phone. The county contends all images taken by its sheriff's deputies and firefighters were quickly destroyed, no longer exist in any form and never entered the public domain.Īlso Monday, a first responder, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Joey Cruz, testified that on the night of Jan. The lawsuit claims a sheriff's deputy showed a photo of Kobe Bryant's remains to a Norwalk bartender two days after the crash. The plaintiffs allege Los Angeles County's first responders took gruesome cell phone pictures of human remains at the remote Calabasas crash site for their own amusement as "souvenirs" and shared them with other law enforcement personnel and members of the public.
Jordan explained to an attorney for the county that his emotional problems stem from “the injury I suffered from whatever I saw up there (at the crash site).'' After a long pause, he added, "my memory is not clear.''
“So please do not keep describing that scene to me.'' “I was there, (but) I do not remember being there,'' he told plaintiff's attorney Jerry Jackson. When he returned, Jordan told jurors that he was “ordered" by a superior officer to go to the accident site, take photos, “and cover up a particular person," meaning the remains of Bryant. When an attorney for Chester described the catastrophic injuries suffered by his client's wife in an attempt to jar Jordan's memories, the witness snapped: “Excuse me, I need to take another break,'' and quickly walked off the stand and out of Walter's courtroom. He answered multiple times that he did not remember such things as whether he used his personal cell phone or a county-issued device to snap photos, what he might have taken pictures of, or even if he had been at the crash scene at all. Vanessa Bryant Thanks Klay Thompson for Touching Kobe, Gigi ESPYs Speech Jordan was criticized by the Los Angeles County Fire Department after it determined his photographs from the crash scene had “no legitimate business purpose'' and “only served to appeal to baser instincts and desires for what amounted to visual gossip,'' according to court records. Her husband and 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and Chester's wife, Sarah, and 13-year-old daughter Payton were among the nine people killed in the crash. Vanessa Bryant and Irvine financial advisor Chris Chester are suing the county for unspecified millions of dollars for negligence and invasion of privacy over the photos.
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Jordan was called to the stand in the federal civil trial of a lawsuit brought by the Lakers star's widow and another family. In awkward testimony that ranged from conflicted to hostile, Brian Jordan said he had little memory of the day or of seeing horrific scenes that “are gonna haunt me forever.'' A retired Los Angeles County fire captain accused of taking multiple photographs of human remains at the scene of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others and then sending the images to at least one other employee testified Monday that he was ordered to take pictures of the scene and “cover up" the remains of a particular victim.