{"id":24802,"date":"2023-02-22T08:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=24802"},"modified":"2023-02-22T08:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:25:29","slug":"malcolm-xs-family-plan-to-sue-fbi-cia-nypd-for-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/02\/22\/malcolm-xs-family-plan-to-sue-fbi-cia-nypd-for-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm X’s family plan to sue FBI, CIA, NYPD for his death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A daughter of murdered black civil rights activist Malcolm X says she is suing New York City Police Department and other agencies for his 1965 murder.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ilyasah Shabazz says US officials fraudulently concealed evidence that they “conspired to and executed their plan to assassinate” her father.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She announced the planned legal action at the site where he was fatally shot in New York exactly 58 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The FBI and CIA were also named in the legal filing, a lawyer said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mrs Shabazz, 60, was two years old when she saw her father gunned down. Three armed men shot him 21 times as he was preparing to speak at a Harlem auditorium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“For years, our family has fought for the truth to come to light concerning his murder,” she said on Tuesday at the venue, which has since been converted into a memorial site, as she filed notices of claims, a precursor to a lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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At the news conference, Benjamin Crump – the lawyer who is representing the family – alleged that powerful figures in the American government had conspired to kill Malcolm X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He mentioned former FBI Director J Edgar Hoover throughout his remarks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Crump said Malcolm X’s family intends to file a wrongful death lawsuit seeking damages in the range of $100m (\u00a383m).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“It’s not just about the triggermen,” he said. “It’s about those who conspired with the triggermen to do this dastardly deed.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The NYPD told the BBC it would not comment on pending litigation. The FBI and CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Malcolm X was a lead spokesman for the Nation of Islam – which advocated separatism for black Americans – before his acrimonious split from the organisation. He was 39 when he was killed.<\/p>\n

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One man, a Nation of Islam member, confessed to killing him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2021, two other men convicted of killing him had their convictions thrown out after a New York state judge declared there had been a miscarriage of justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The two men were later fully exonerated after New York’s attorney general found prosecutors had withheld evidence that would have probably cleared them of the murder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Family of the wrongly convicted men sued and won $26m from New York City and $10m from New York state.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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