a daughter of malcolm xcivil rights activist murdered 58 years agohas announced its intention to sue the FBI, the CIA and the New York City police, among others for the death of his father. Ilyasah Shabazz accused various New York and federal government agencies of fraudulently concealing evidence that they “conspired and executed a plan to assassinate Malcolm X.”
“For years, our family has fought for the truth about his murder to come to light,” Shabazz said at a news conference at the site of his father’s assassination, now a memorial to Malcolm X.
Malcolm X rose to fame as a national spokesman for the nation of islaman African-American Muslim group that espoused black separatism and in which he spent more than a decade before becoming disillusioned, publicly breaking with it in 1964 and moderating some of his earlier views on racial separation, angering some members of the Nation of Islam and receiving death threats.
He was 39 years old when three gunmen shot him as he prepared to speak at the Audubon Ballroom in New York on February 21, 1965. Shabazz, then 2 years old, was present with his mother and sisters. Soon after, some associates of Malcolm X said that they believed that various government agencies were aware of the assassination plot and allowed it to occur. talmadge hayerthen a member of the Nation of Islam, confessed in court that he was one of the murderers. In 2021, a New York state judge threw out the convictions of two other men who wrongfully spent decades in prison for the murder of Malcolm X, saying there had been a judicial error. Hayer had long said the two men were innocent and their accomplices were other members of the Nation of Islam.
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The two men were exonerated at the request of the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which said an investigation found that prosecutors and law enforcement concealed evidence that, if released, would likely have led to the couple’s acquittal.
In Shabazz’s claim notices, he said that ask for $100 million in damages. Those notices were sent Tuesday to the agencies he intends to sue, based on new information that came to light recently, according to Ben Crump, his attorney, who said he intended to take statements from government officials. . “This is not just about the men who shot, this is about those who conspired with the men who shot to commit this cowardly act,” Crump said at the news conference.