Three of the daughters of the famous activist killed in 1965 in New York accuse law enforcement and federal agencies of turning a blind eye to their father’s assassination plan. They are seeking $100 million in damages.
The children of Malcolm A year and a half after announcing their intention to sue law enforcement and federal agencies, three of Malcolm Press and Reuters. They are seeking 100 million dollars (around 95 million euros) in damages.
According to this complaint, police and federal agents had learned of the assassination plan that cost Malcolm X’s life and they did nothing to prevent it. During a press conference, Ben Crump, the lawyer for the family of Malcolm repair these unprecedented misdeeds.
“We believe they all conspired to assassinate Malcolm X, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century,” he said.
Men exonerated half a century later
Spokesman for years for the “Nation of Islam”, which advocated separatism between Blacks and Whites, Malcolm X, who also called himself Al-Hâjj Mâlik al-Shabazz, ended up distancing himself from this organization from of 1964. Targeted by death threats, he was killed on February 21, 1965 in the Audubon ballroom in New York.
Nearly 60 years later, many questions remain regarding the circumstances of the death of the activist for the rights of African-Americans. Malcolm X’s wife, Betty Shabazz, the plaintiffs and “their entire family suffered from not knowing” for decades, the complaint says.
The FBI, CIA and NYPD remain silent
A member of the “Nation of Islam” at the time, Talmadge Hayer admitted to having shot Malcolm years later. One of them, Muhammad Aziz, released in 1985, obtained $36 million in 2022 to compensate him for the years he wrongly spent behind bars. The second, Khalil Islam, was released in 1987 but died in 2009.
According to the complaint, the New York police, among other things, voluntarily chose to do without the presence of officers inside the ballroom where Malcolm X was killed. Federal agents, some undercover, would have been present that day, but they would have failed to protect the activist.
Asked by the Associated Press, the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice and the New York police declined to respond to the filing of this complaint.
