LOS ANGELES COUNTY (KABC) -- January 28, 2020: It's a typical taco Tuesday at the Baja California Bar and Grill in Norwalk, just two days after a helicopter crash killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.

Then, talk at the bar turns to the crash.

Security camera footage from the bar that night shows Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Dept. Joey Cruz with his phone in one hand and a beer in the other.

On the phone are graphic photos of the basketball star's remains from the crash site. After Cruz leaves the bar, the bartender walks over to a booth near the front door and begins talking to a group of regulars. The men were part of a softball league and stopped by the restaurant after a game that night.

Ralph Mendez said the bartender told them that the man who had just left was an L.A. County deputy who had shown him extremely gruesome photos from the crash site.

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"He has pictures, he showed me pictures," Mendez said the bartender told the group.

"Pictures of what?" the group asked.

"He began describing what he saw, you know? 'They were all burned,' and he got very graphic with it," recalled Mendez.

The bartender, Victor Gutierrez, later testified in a deposition that the photos were "shocking," and "contained body parts."

Mendez said the bartender told him that Cruz laughed and said he found the photos amusing. Mendez had hoped none of it was true.

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