{"id":29780,"date":"2023-02-22T06:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=29780"},"modified":"2023-02-22T06:59:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:59:32","slug":"melcom-axs-daughter-to-sue-cia-and-fbi-for-wrongful-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/02\/22\/melcom-axs-daughter-to-sue-cia-and-fbi-for-wrongful-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Melcom ax\u2019s daughter to sue CIA and FBI for wrongful death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The family of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X marked on Tuesday the anniversary of his 1965 assassination by announcing plans to sue agencies including the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others for $100 million, accusing them of playing a role in his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two of his daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz and Qubilah Shabazz, were joined by attorney Ben Crump at a news conference at the site of the former Audubon Ballroom in upper Manhattan, where Malcolm X was fatally shot as a crowd gathered to hear him speak on Feb. 21, 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For decades questions have circulated over who was responsible for his death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three men were convicted, but two were exonerated in 2021 after a renewed investigation into the cases against them showed the evidence used to gain convictions was shaky and that authorities had held back some information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilyasah Shabazz, the co-administrator of her father\u2019s estate, filed notices of claim, which is the first step in the process, saying that the agencies \u201cconspired with each other and with other individuals and acted, and failed to act, in such a way as to bring about the wrongful death of Malcolm X.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor years our family has fought for the truth to come to light,\u201d\u00a0she said at the news conference. \u201cWe want justice served for our father.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emails seeking comment were sent to the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice and New York City\u2019s legal department. The DOJ and NYPD declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crump noted the anniversary date and said that ever since then, \u201cthere has been speculation as to who was involved in the assassination of Malcolm X.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He cited the 2021 exonerations and said that government agencies including the Manhattan district attorney, the NYPD and the FBI \u201chad factual evidence, exculpatory evidence that they fraudulently concealed from the men who were wrongfully convicted for the assassination of Malcolm X.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked if he believes government agencies conspired to assassinate Malcolm, Crump said, \u201cThat is what we are alleging, yes. They infiltrated many civil rights organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The family of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X marked on Tuesday the anniversary of his 1965 assassination by announcing plans to sue agencies including the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others for $100 million, accusing them of playing a role in his death. Two of his daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz and Qubilah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[8439,5145,9331,11282,9171,2808,7234,10391,10393,5455,2264,10197,10419,11237,9599,12309,990,1670,11535,9600,5964,421,11259,146,6740,594,10353],"class_list":["post-29780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-assassination","tag-cia","tag-city","tag-convicted","tag-crowd","tag-daughter","tag-death","tag-declined","tag-department-of-justice","tag-family","tag-government","tag-investigation","tag-justice","tag-manhattan","tag-melcom-x","tag-men","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-police","tag-new-york-police-department","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-shot","tag-truth","tag-us-fbi","tag-who","tag-x"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}