Tyre Nichols' family sues Memphis police over his death: 'It’s my turn to make sure that my son’s death does not go in vain,' his mother, RowVaughn Wells, said
,” saying Nichols was targeted because he was Black. It says that the department permitted this aggressive approach and ignored complaints by other residents targeted by the unit before Nichols’ death.
The lawsuit is meant to send a message to other cities, Crump said at Wednesday’s press conference. “We will bring these lawsuits to other cities where police are killing Black and brown people,” he said. “If it happens in your city, we’re coming to your city too,” adding that their mission is to make it unaffordable for police to continue to have these police units.Nichols died three days after the beating in January.
The three officers who initiated the traffic stop claimed Nichols was driving recklessly as he was heading home from a park the evening of Jan. 7. However, the lawsuit said they stopped 29-year-old Nichols for reasons that have “never been substantiated.” Davis has said that she has seen no evidence justifying the traffic stop or the officers’ response.
“What did I do?” Nichols asked during the encounter and ran away from officers after he was pulled out of his car, the lawsuit said. Just feet from his home, Nichols was beaten so badly that he was “left unrecognizable,” the lawsuit states, comparing his case to that of Emmett Till some 70 years prior and the officers to a “modern-day lynch mob.”
The lawsuit provides new details of the trauma Nichols suffered. He arrived at the hospital with no pulse, it states, and had suffered cardiac arrest. He was intubated and put on dialysis because his kidneys were failing. His face was so swollen as to be unrecognizable. He had broken teeth. His brain was swollen and unable to function properly.
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