Three daughters of Malcolm X, the black civil rights activist who was assassinated in 1965, have sued the CIA, the FBI and the New York Police Department over his murder and are seeking $100 million in damages.
In a lawsuit filed in a court in Manhattan, it is stated that the daughters of Malcolm X believe that the said services had knowledge of the murder, that they were involved in it and that they did not prevent it.
Attorney Ben Crump said at a news conference with family members that he hopes federal and city officials will read the allegations in the lawsuit and "see that their predecessors took steps to harm" and that he hopes to right "historical injustices."
The agencies named did not immediately respond to The Associated Press' request for comment. Nicholas Bayes, a spokesman for the Secretariat of Justice, which is also being sued, declined to comment.
For decades, there have been more questions than answers about who is to blame for the death of Malcolm X, who was 39 years old when he was assassinated in Manhattan on February 21, 1965, after giving a speech to several hundred people.
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, and later changed his name to El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz.
Three men were convicted in his murder, but two were acquitted in 2021 after investigators reviewed the case and determined that some evidence was shaky and that authorities had not released all the information.
In the lawsuit, the family claims the prosecution downplayed the government's role in the murder of Malcolm X. His wife Betty Shabazz and the entire family lived in pain for decades because they had no information about what happened, according to the lawsuit.
"They did not know who killed Malcolm X, why he was killed, what the New York police, the FBI and the CIA orchestrated, the identity of the government agents who participated in this conspiracy or covered it up. The damage done to the Shabazz family is unimaginable, enormous and irreparable," it concludes. in the lawsuit that the family announced last year.
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