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Family of Tyre Nichols sues Memphis officials, police officers

RowVaughn Wells, the mother of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by police officers, reacts in January at a news conference in Memphis, Tennessee, the United States [File: Gerald Herbert/AP Photo]

Lawyers for the family of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black father who was brutally beaten by police and died shortly afterward, have filed a lawsuit against officials and law enforcement in the United States city of Memphis.

The lawsuit alleges that the city’s police officers acted as a “modern-day lynch mob” as they kicked and punched Nichols following a traffic stop on January 7.

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