Malcolm Hthe civil rights leader who later transformed into a global activist, was assassinated in 1965 just as his human rights messages were beginning to resonate with the wider public. Malcolm X's family has filed a $100 million wrongful-death lawsuit against the United States government, alleging complicity in his death.
As reported late last week by ABC Newscivil rights attorney Ben Crump was flanked by family members of Malcolm X and announced the $100 million lawsuit while speaking at a media gathering in New York where the leader was shot.
According to Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X), said the family and their legal team have uncovered damning evidence linking the NYPD and the FBI to working together to kill her father.
“We mostly fought for our mother, who was here,” Ms. Shabazz said, referring to the late Betty Shabazz, speaking at the site of the former Audubon Ballroom. “My mother was pregnant when she came here to see her husband speak, someone she just absolutely admired, and to witness this horrific murder of her husband.”
Crump added in his statements to the press that the lawsuit targets an alleged scheme by authorities to keep the truth of X's death under wraps. In the lawsuit, a witness named Mustafa Hassan claims that when he and others tried to stop the people who committed the murder, NYPD officers intervened to help the suspects escape. Hassan was reportedly never questioned by investigators at the scene, despite giving an account of the incident.
In addition, the family's legal team says they have two affidavits from a pair of X's bodyguards who claim they were jailed by an undercover NYPD officer a week before the murder and kept on X's side to guarantee the job would get done .
The FBI and NYPD declined to comment on the lawsuit, according to the agency.
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