The family of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died days after he was brutally beaten by officers, filed a $550 million lawsuit against the city of Memphis, its police department and several individuals.
which compares Nichols’ beating to the 1955 killing of Emmett Till, said Nichols’ death and the actions of the MPD officers the night of the traffic stop were "the culmination of a Department-ordered and Department-tolerated rampage" and the city's "deliberate indifference."
In addition to the city and MPD Police Chief Cerelyn Davis, seven former Memphis Police Department officers andThe former fire department officials are accused of being partly responsible for Nichols's death by being deliberately indifferent to his "plainly obvious, critical medical needs.
"It is our mission to make it financially unsustainable for these police oppression units to unjustly kill Black people in the future," Crump said. The lawsuit includes at least seven accounts from other community members who say they were victims of violence, aggression and unconstitutional policing from Memphis's disbanded unit.
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