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(The Hill) -- The property of Malcolm X is suing the national government, accusing it of playing a relation successful the 1965 assassination of the civilian rights leader.
In a suit filed against the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI, the CIA and the New York Police Department (NYPD), the property alleges the agencies each played a important relation successful the events starring to Malcolm X's slaying and past engaged successful a decades-long cover-up of their involvement.
The ailment says the DOJ, FBI, CIA and NYPD were alert of credible threats against Malcolm X’s beingness but failed to intervene.
“As a nonstop effect of the Defendants' intentional, atrocious faith, willful, wanton, reckless, unreasonable and/or deliberately indifferent acts and omissions, Malcolm X was deprived of his national law rights, was robbed of his beingness and freedom, and sustained terrible physical, emotional, and monetary damages, including conscious carnal symptom and suffering,” the suit states.
Malcom X, who was calved Malcolm Little, was gunned down astatine property 39 by 3 men connected Feb. 21, 1965, astatine the Audubon Ballroom successful Manhattan, wherever helium was acceptable to present a speech. His large wife, Betty Shabazz, and 4 daughters were successful the beforehand row.
He was changeable 21 times successful the attack.
The suit, brought by Malcolm X's girl Ilyasah Shabazz and different household members, calls for $100 cardinal successful restitution. It besides demands answers to questions inactive surrounding the assassination.
Though 3 men were initially convicted for the killing, 2 were exonerated successful 2021.
That aforesaid year, a letter written by a erstwhile NYPD officer alleged that the NYPD and FBI covered up details of the assassination.
The officer, Raymond Wood, wrote that helium was ordered to coerce members of Malcolm X's information squad to perpetrate felonious national crimes “so that they could beryllium arrested by the FBI and kept distant from managing Malcolm X's doorway information connected Feb. 21, 1965.”
The suit alleges that nether the absorption of J. Edgar Hoover, then-head of the FBI, the entities “went beyond specified allegedly amerciable surveillance of Malcolm X, actively conspiring to trim his extortion and leaving him susceptible to an onslaught they knew was imminent.”
“For decades, these agencies viewed Black activism arsenic a menace to nationalist security, resulting successful the unchecked targeting of salient leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Marcus Garvey,” the household said successful a property release.
“This suit seeks accountability for the systemic negligence and intentional actions that deprived Malcolm X's household and the satellite of his beingness and legacy.”
In total, the suit lists 9 causes of action, including excessive usage of unit against Malcolm X, deliberate instauration of danger, nonaccomplishment to support and the denial of entree to the courts for his family.
The suit besides charges the defendants with conspiracy, fraudulent concealment and wrongful death.
"This cover-up spanned decades, blocking the Shabazz family's entree to the information and their close to prosecute justice," said civilian rights lawyer Ben Crump, who is representing the household successful the suit. "We are making past by lasting present to face those wrongs and seeking accountability successful the courts."
