- The lawsuit accuses the FBI, CIA and NYPD of allowing the murder of Malcolm X.
- A wrongful death lawsuit was announced at the site where Malcolm X was killed.
- The civil rights leader’s family says agencies did nothing to stop his killing.
The family of Malcolm
The lawsuit, filed by Eliasa Shabazz, Malcolm
“We believe they all conspired to assassinate Malcolm
The wrongful death lawsuit was announced at a memorial center at the site where Malcolm X was killed in New York City. Crump said he seeks to answer the questions surrounding the assassination and chart an accurate history of the events. It also aims to provide compensation to the family.
A New York Police Department spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment, but the department had previously reported this Reuters It did not comment on the lawsuit when it was announced last year.
The FBI and CIA did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Malcolm
After more than a decade with the group, he publicly broke with it in 1964. He moderated some of his previous views on segregation, angering some members of the Nation of Islam and making death threats.
Talmadge Heyer, then a member of the Nation of Islam, admitted in court to being one of the three killers. But speculation that the government may have known about the assassination plan and allowed it to happen has persisted for decades.
Shabazz was just two years old on February 21, 1965, when her father was killed as he prepared to speak at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. She was present with her mother and siblings when the assassination occurred.