Lawyers for the family of Malcolm X have  , filed a$ 100 million lawsuit , against the U. S. government, Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and the NYPD for conspiring to allow the assassination of the civil rights leader in 1965.
Civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump held a press event on Friday in the former , Audubon Ballroom, the Washington Heights tower where Malcolm X was shot before giving a speech, on Friday.” The administration’s fingerprints are all over the death of Malcolm X. We think we have the proof to support it.
Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz, one of Malcolm X’s girls, and Crump stood in front of a painting that featured Malcolm X and the team of professionals who had been preparing the situation.
” It has taken us a long time to get to this place, and we fought largely for our mother, who was here on Feb. 21, 1965″, said Shabazz. My mother was expecting, but she was present to hear her father speak, a man she had admired since he was killed by her husband.
Malcolm X was shot by three attackers on Feb. 21, 1965, while standing onscreen of the Audubon Ballroom, then known as the Malcolm X &, Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center. The defendants, including Nation of Islam people Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, were convicted of first-degree death.
However, the shooting has always been tainted by conspiracy theories that the real murders fled and that government officials had secretly kept the information that might have cleared Aziz and Islam.
Aziz and Islam were later found guilty and later cleared by Mujahid Abdul Halim, a second assailant who had been apprehended at the scene, but the two men were imprisoned for the murder for more than 20 times.
In 2021, friends of a dying former NYPD officer, Raymond Wood, shared what doctors called a , decade-old deathbed confession , detailing a story to fraudulently arrest the legal rights president’s security guards Khaleel Sayyed and Walter Bowe to make sure Malcolm X was n’t sufficiently protected during his last statement.
Sayyed and Bowe gave sworn documents in February, and said they were , busted on trumped-up charges , and kept out of the photo just weeks before Malcolm X was killed.
In 2021, a express prosecutor exonerated Aziz and Islam. The , city paid$ 26 million and the state paid$ 10 million  , to Aziz and the family of Islam to settle lawsuits related to their wrongful convictions in 2022.
Crump said that was the court’s turning place.
” Over the past three years, we have been uncovering new proof,” which includes “people never having spoken before about what they witnessed during those tumultuous times of the 1960s.”
Crump cited Mustafa Hassan’s oath, who had never previously disclosed his involvement with the murder. Hassan was working security at the Audubon Hall that night.
Hassan, who was next to Malcolm X as he died, in 2023 , described his attempt to stop one of the gunmen , as he fled, but being stymied by authorities.
” Why would it be that no one, for almost 57 years, never heard from ( Hassan ), never spoke to him, never took a statement from him”? asked attorney Ray Hamlin at Friday’s media event. ” Why would n’t they speak to someone whose presence is so prominent?
” Why would the authorities sue two people when they were unaware that they had no business being involved in the murder?” What was it that our state, what was it that the town was trying to protect?”
According to counsel Flint Taylor, nine FBI studies that confessed criminal Halim “had strong links to the FBI” began to surface after Aziz and Islam were cleared of all guilt.
” We’re looking for his report, they’re trying to say it may have been destroyed,” said Taylor.
In 2023, on the 58th celebration of Malcolm X’s dying,  , Crump announced plans to record a wrongful death lawsuit , against the companies.
At his day,” We think we are on solid ground to proceed with this petition.” We’re not only making past, but we’re making a way to justice,” said Crump.
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