Malcolm X’s family sues FBI, CIA, and New York police over his assassination
The family of Malcolm X has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the FBI, CIA, and New York Police Department (NYPD), accusing them of involvement in his 1965 assassination.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing the family, claims the agencies conspired to assassinate the activist.
The lawsuit alleges that a corrupt relationship between law enforcement and Malcolm X’s killers enabled the murder.
It contends that federal agents in the ballroom during the shooting did nothing to intervene.
The family’s legal action follows the exoneration of two men wrongly convicted for the crime.
They were cleared after a New York judge found a miscarriage of justice, with key evidence withheld by prosecutors.
The NYPD declined to comment, and the CIA and FBI have not responded to the lawsuit.
Malcolm X, a key figure in the civil rights movement, was 39 years old when he was murdered.
He was a lead spokesman for the Nation of Islam — which advocated separatism for black Americans.
In 1964, he left the group and converted to Islam, making the Hajj pilgrimage that same year and rejecting his previous beliefs relating to racial separatism.
A Nation of Islam member confessed to killing him in New York in February 1965.
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