MEMPHIS, Tenn. - More than 200 pages outline a lengthy response from City of Memphis attorneys to the family of Tyre Nichols.

The Nichols family is suing the city for $550 million. The response denies most of the claims made by the Nichols' family in their amended complaint, filed in January 2025.

One of the claims in the amended complaints says, "The MPD has a longstanding custom of brutalizing civilians without justification."

In the response filed this week, the City denies these claims altogether, saying, "City Defendants deny that Mr. Nichols' death was the direct result of the policies and practices of the City of Memphis or MPD."

The complaint from the Nichols family discusses a previous unit within the Atlanta Police Department, where Chief C.J. Davis worked before Memphis, cal

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