The lawsuit accuses Memphis Police Director Cerelyn "CJ" Davis of starting a crime-suppression unit called Scorpion to target repeat violent offenders in high-crime areas.
The suit, filed by lawyers for Tyre Nichols' mother, RowVaugn Wells, seeks a jury trial and financial damages, that Attorney Ben Crump said in a press conference Wednesday, was not just a number but a message to other cities.
By Nick Valencia, Ray Sanchez and Pamela Kirkland, CNN The family of Tyre Nichols filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Memphis, its police department and what the suit said were the “unqualified, untrained, and unsupervised” officers who brutally beat the 29-year-old Black man after a traffic…
RowVaughn Wells, the mother of the Memphis man who died in January after being beaten by police, said in the complaint that her 29-year-old son was killed in “a gruesome, barbaric display of police brutality.”
By Nick Valencia, Ray Sanchez, Pamela Kirkland and Maxime Tamsett, CNN The family of Tyre Nichols filed a federal $550 million lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Memphis, its police department and what the suit said were “unqualified, untrained, and unsupervised” officers assigned to a special un…
The family's attorneys say they also intend to sue Memphis police for "intentional infliction of emotional distress for lying to [Tyre Nichols'] mother" about his beating at the hands of police.
The lawsuit compared Nichols' fatal police beating to the 1955 killing of Emmett Till, saying the 29-year-old suffered a beating "endured at hands of a modern-day lynch mob."
The family of Tyre Nichols filed a federal $550 million lawsuit against the city of Memphis, its police department, and what the suit said were "unqualified, untrained, and unsupervised" officers.
“Tyre Nichols should never have been stopped that day, and under no circumstances should he have been brutally beaten,” lawyer says of the lawsuit filed on behalf of Nichols’ moth…
The family of Tyre Nichols filed a federal $500 million lawsuit against the city of Memphis, its police department and what the suit said were the "unqualified, untrained, and unsupervised" officers who brutally beat the 29-year-old Black man after a traffic stop in January.
The lawsuit claims the Memphis police Scorpion unit used 'extreme intimidation, humiliation, and violence' and 'disproportionately focused on and targeted young Black men.'
The family of Tyre Nichols, who died three days after a brutal beating by five Memphis police officers, sued the city of Memphis, individual officers, and emergency medical personnel involved in his case, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Memphis.
A civil lawsuit against the city of Memphis was filed Wednesday in the police killing of Tyre Nichols. The suit described the "savage" beating of Nichols as "a pack of wolves attempting to hunt down prey."
The family of Tyre Nichols has filed a lawsuit against the city of Memphis, its police department and several officers following his January 2023 death.
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