Breaking news: Lawyers for Tyre Nichols’s family filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Memphis, its police department, Police Chief Cerelyn Davis and the officers involved in the brutal beating of the 29-year-old following a traffic stop in January.
filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee describes the beating as a “foreseeable product of the unconstitutional policies, practices, customs, and deliberate indifference of the City of Memphis and Chief Davis."
The suit compares the beating to the 1955 killing of Emmitt Till and describes the officers involved as a “modern-day lynch mob.” Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the family, this week announced plans to discuss the lawsuit at a news conference later Wednesday. The complaint does not specify a dollar amount being sought in damages.Nichols’s death sparked widespread outrage, fueled by the horrific nature of his injuries and the graphic video footage from police body cameras and surveillance cameras.
Joanna C. Schwartz, a UCLA School of Law professor and author of “Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable,” said the lawsuit filed Wednesday stands out from most police misconduct cases because of the media attention the attack garnered; the clear and comprehensive video evidence released by the city afterward; and the immediate condemnation by city officials of the officers’ actions.
“There are many people who are killed by police who never had any public attention paid to what’s happened to them, so the lawsuit is the public’s introduction to the case,” Schwartz said. “But this is a case that has already been litigated in some manner on the international stage, and there’s been widespread agreement that what the officers did was wrong — criminal, even.Payouts for high-profile police misconduct cases have increased nationwide in recent years, studies show.
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