Daughters of the late civil rights leader Malcom X is suing the CIA, FBI, New York Police Department and the Department of Justice for having knowledge about the plot to kill him and suppressing evidence in the murder trial...
From Newsweek
Three daughters of civil rights leader Malcolm X have sued the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others, accusing the agencies of playing roles in his 1965 assassination.
The lawsuit—filed in Manhattan federal court by the daughters and the Malcolm X estate—was announced at a Friday news conference in New York City.
Malcolm X, who was born Malcolm Little but later changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, died at age 39 after he was shot 21 times by multiple gunmen while he was speaking at Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965.
Three men were convicted for his death, but two of them were exonerated in 2021 after investigators found issues with evidence and discovered authorities withheld information. The two exonerated men later received a combined $36 million after the city and state of New York settled lawsuits with them.
In the lawsuit, the family claims law enforcement agencies were both aware of and involved in the assassination plot and failed to stop the killing. The family also accused the prosecution team of suppressing the government's role in the assassination.
Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz, the plaintiffs, "and their entire family have suffered the pain of the unknown" for decades, the lawsuit says.
"They did not know who murdered Malcolm X, why he was murdered, the level of NYPD, FBI and CIA orchestration, the identity of the governmental agents who conspired to ensure his demise, or who fraudulently covered-up their role," the filing adds. "The damage caused to the Shabazz family is unimaginable, immense and irreparable."
14 comments:
Good
Make them pay
Good. Filing a suit is the only way the truth will come out and even then there's no guarantee. Good luck to the ladies.
I feel some wording should have been in there about how they botched the investigation and now two men are free and they don’t know if they were the real killers or not due to the negligence of the named agencies . I feel this should be in there for good measure because I do not believe those agencies will admit to what this lawsuit suggests (which is they played an active role in his assassination) and I want them to win! If those two men could get 36 mil I feel his family should get double triple that EACH!!
The Family isn't going to get any money. The Government is going to tie this up in court
You know the government was involved or aware but are they suing Elijah and the Nation too?
I was getting ready to comment about the fake azz Nation of Islam treacherous part in his unaliving! Tha Fuq!! Those rats did the deeds of the government willingly out of envy and jealousy!
Elijah enabled it. Government did it.
I'M NOT AT ALL CERTAIN THAT THE OUTCOME OF THIS CASE WILL EVER FIND ANY RESOLVE FOR THE X/SHABAZZ FAMILY OR THOSE OF US WHO BELIEVE THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS INDEDD INVOLVED WITH MALCOLM X'S ASSASSINATION MORE THAN 60 YEARS AGO.
I believe they will get justice. It's time.
Good luck with that…
Not sure if we can post links on rws but here is the closed case files for the assassination including transcripts
https://a860-collectionguides.nyc.gov/repositories/2/resources/27
WITH THE NEW ADMINISTRATION COMING IN & THEIR WHITE PEOPLES' AGENDA EXPECTED TO BE IN PLAY, I'M NOT SURE THAT MALCOLM X'S ESTATE WILL GET THE JUSTICE THEY DESERVE.
OR, THAT OF ANYONE OF COLOR WILL RECEIVE JUSTICE FROM ANY PERCEIVED INJUSTICES AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT 4-5 YEARS OR SO.
^ Why you think they waited till after the election? It's time!
^^^^^ I'M SAYING THIS LAWSUIT SHOULD'VE BEEN BROUGHT AT LEAST 30 YEARS OR SO AGO FOR IT TO GET THE ATTENTION IT NEEDED & TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
THEM BRINGING IT NOW JUST SEEMS LIKE IT'LL BE IGNORED OR DISMISSED AS JUST CONSPIRACY AS IT HAD BEEN FOR 40+ YEARS OR SO.
THE TIME FOR IT TO HAD BEEN BROUGHT FORTH WAS WHEN THE FILM "X" WAS IN THEATERS NEARLY 34 YEARS OR SO AGO FOR SOMETHING TO BE DONE ABOUT IT WHILE IT WAS MORE PREVALENTLY ON FOLKS' MINDS.
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