Family of Tyre Nichols files $550 million lawsuit against Memphis over fatal police beating

Rodney Wells (C) and RowVaughn Wells, the stepfather and mother of Tyre Nichols, and civil rights attorney Ben Crump in Memphis, Tennessee, in January 2023. Lawyers representing the family of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man​ who died days after he was brutally beaten by officers during a traffic stop in January, filed a multi-million dollar federal civil lawsuit against the city of Memphis, Tennessee, its police department and several individuals on Wednesday. Why it matters: One of the family's lawyers, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, said the family is...