Malcolm X’s daughters sue CIA and FBI

Three daughters of Malcolm Manhattan federal court and are seeking $100 million.

The daughters – as well as Malcolm

At a morning news conference, attorney Ben Crump stood alongside family members to describe the lawsuit, saying he hoped federal and city officials would read it “and would learn of all the dastardly acts that were committed by their predecessors and would attempt to right these historical wrongs. »

Law enforcement did not respond to interview requests Friday. Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the Justice Department, also sued, declined to comment.

Since his death at the age of 39 on February 21, 1965, many questions remain unanswered about who was responsible for the murder of Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom on 165^e West Street in Manhattan, while speaking to an audience of a few hundred people. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm X later changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.

A family in pain

Three men were convicted of crimes in the case, but two of them were exonerated in 2021 after investigators reexamined the case and concluded that some evidence was questionable and that authorities had withheld exculpatory information.

In its lawsuit, the family claims the prosecution team covered up the government’s role in the killing.

Malcolm X’s wife, Betty Shabazz, the plaintiffs, “and the entire family suffered the pain of the unknown” for decades, the lawsuit says.

“They don’t know who assassinated Malcolm , or who fraudulently concealed their role,” we can read in the document. “The harm caused to the Shabazz family is unimaginable, immense and irreparable. »

The family announced their intention to sue law enforcement early last year.