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Malcolm X’s family is suing the FBI, CIA and NYPD over his assassination

Malcolm X’s family is suing the FBI, CIA and NYPD over his assassination

The family of slain black civil rights activist Malcolm

According to the lawsuit, the agencies were involved in the plot and failed to stop the killing.

“We believe they all conspired to assassinate Malcolm

Malcolm X was killed in 1965 when three gunmen shot him 21 times as he prepared to give a speech in New York.

The lawsuit alleges that a “corrupt, unlawful and unconstitutional” relationship between law enforcement officers and the “ruthless killers” made the killing possible.

The ties between the agencies and the killers “remained unchecked for years and were actively concealed, tolerated, protected and facilitated by government agents,” the lawsuit said.

It says the NYPD, working with the agencies, also detained members of Malcolm X’s security team for several days before the shooting and deliberately removed their officers from the ballroom where he was shot.

Federal agents, including undercover agents, were in the ballroom during the killing and took no steps to intervene, the lawsuit alleges.

The family announced them intention to file a lawsuit last year.

The CIA and NYPD did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The FBI told the Associated Press that it was its “standard practice” not to comment on legal proceedings.

Malcolm He was 39 when he was murdered.

One man, a Nation of Islam member, confessed to killing him.

In 2021, two other men convicted of his murder had their convictions thrown out after a New York state judge declared there had been a miscarriage of justice.

The two men were later fully exonerated after New York’s attorney general found that prosecutors had withheld evidence that would have likely exonerated them of the murder.

The family of the wrongfully convicted men sued and won $26 million from New York City and $10 million from New York State.