three daughters of Malcolm X They filed a $100 million lawsuit on Friday against the CIAhe FBIhe New York Police Department and other organizations for participating in the murder of the civil rights leader, which occurred in 1965.
In the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, the daughters — along with Malcolm They were aware, participated in the murder plot and failed to stop the murder.
At a press conference, the lawyer Ben Crump He was accompanied by several family members as he described the lawsuit, saying he hoped federal and city officials would read it “and learn about all the nefarious actions taken by their predecessors and try to correct these historical wrongs.”
Law enforcement agencies have so far not responded to requests for comment. Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the Justice Department, which was also sued, declined to comment.
For decades, more questions than answers have arisen about who was to blame for the death of Malcolm hundreds of people. Malcolm X, whose birth name was Malcolm Little, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and later changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
Three men were convicted of various crimes following the activist’s death, but two of them were exonerated in 2021 after investigators reviewed the case again and concluded that some evidence was dubious and that authorities had withheld some information.
In the lawsuit, the family stated that The prosecution team concealed the government’s involvement in the murder.
The lawsuit alleges that there was a relationship “corrupt, illegal and unconstitutional” between law enforcement and “ruthless killers who were not apprehended for many years and were actively hidden, condoned, protected and facilitated by government agents,” until it led to the assassination of Malcolm X.
According to the lawsuit, the New York police, in coordination with federal law enforcement agencies, arrested the activist’s security team days before the murder and intentionally removed their officers from inside the room where Malcolm Federal agencies had personnel, including undercover agents, in the room but failed to protect him.
The lawsuit was not filed sooner because the defendants withheld information from the family, including the identities of undercover “informants, agents and provocateurs” and what they knew about the planning that preceded the attack.
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“They did not know who murdered Malcolm participation,” he says. “The damage caused to the Shabazz family is unimaginable, immense and irreparable.”
The family announced early last year their intention to sue law enforcement agencies.
(AP)
