Late prominent Black leader Malcolm X’s family will file a wrongful death lawsuit against the New York Police Department, the CIA, the FBI and the state of New York for their alleged role in the assassination of Malcolm X.
The $100 million wrongful death lawsuit accuses the government agencies of “fraudulent concealment of evidence” surrounding the murdered civil rights icon’s death.
“We will seek justice for a man, a very young man, who gave his life for human rights,” said his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz during a press conference announcing the lawsuit on Tuesday.
The lawsuit comes a little over three months after New York settled lawsuits filed by two men wrongfully convicted of murdering the Muslim leader and on the 58th anniversary of his death.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family, said the exonerated men’s lawsuit that claimed the FBI, NYPD and the New York district attorney “fraudulently concealed” evidence made way for Malcolm X’s daughters to “seek legal redress.”
“Based on the government’s admission that they concealed evidence involving the assassination of Malcolm X, the truth of what happened and who was involved has always been critical,” Crump said Tuesday.
Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan on February 21, 1965. Crump and his co-counsel Ray Hamlin argue that the leader’s daughters were traumatized after seeing their father shot 21 times by a group of men. Malcolm left behind six daughters. His daughter Malikah Shabazz died in November 2021.
Rumors that the Nation of Islam was planning to kill Malcolm X were well known at the time of his death after he had a falling out with its leader, Elijah Muhammad.
Malcolm X — who was born Malcolm Little — had been the national spokesman for the Nation of Islam and by far its most prominent figure. When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, Muhammad warned Malcolm…
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