Malcolm X’s daughters $100 million lawsuit!
New York, Nov 16 (EFE).-
Malcolm X’s daughters have filed a $100 million lawsuit against the New York Police Department, the FBI, and the CIA, accusing them of complicity and a decades-long cover-up in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader.
Ilyasah Shabazz, one of Malcolm X’s daughters and the family’s spokesperson, told reporters on Friday that new evidence supported their claim that the NYPD and the FBI conspired to kill her father.
“The government fingerprints are all over the assassination of Malcolm X. And finally, we believe we have the evidence to prove it,” said Ben Crump, the family’s attorney.
Malcolm X, born El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was fatally shot on February 21, 1965, while delivering a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. The 39-year-old activist was hit by 21 bullets in front of his pregnant wife and two daughters.
The lawsuit accuses authorities of suppressing evidence and maintaining a “corrupt, illegal, and unconstitutional” relationship with the killers.
It alleges that law enforcement deliberately removed security personnel from the ballroom and arrested Malcolm X’s security team just days before the assassination.
“It is not lost on us that justice has been delayed in this matter, and on this momentous occasion, we stand ready to lay out our complaint very soundly,” Crump said.
He indicated that during the past three years, “every day, every week,” they have uncovered new evidence in this case.
In 2021, two of the three men convicted for Malcolm X’s murder were exonerated after a re-examination of the case revealed weak evidence and suppressed information.
Shabazz said her family’s commitment to seeking justice was for their mother, Betty Shabazz, who died in 1997.
“My mother was pregnant when she came here to see her husband speak, someone who she just admired totally and to witness this horrific assassination of her husband.”
The lawsuit, filed from the site of Malcolm X’s assassination, seeks to uncover the full truth behind the events and hold those responsible accountable. EFE
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