‘Dastardly deeds’: Family of Malcolm X sues US agencies over assassination
Al Jazeera
The civil rights leader’s family has accused the CIA, FBI and NYPD of concealing prior knowledge of the assassination and failing to intervene.
Three daughters of Malcolm X, a Black empowerment and civil rights icon in the United States, have accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the New York Police Department (NYPD) of being in part responsible for their father’s 1965 assassination.
On Friday, the family filed a $100m wrongful-death lawsuit against the three agencies.
The legal action is the latest turn in the decades-long fallout from Malcolm X’s killing, which has prompted many questions but few answers.
He was shot dead in February 1965, when gunmen opened fire on the 39-year-old shortly after he began speaking at an event in the Harlem neighbourhood of New York.
Friday’s lawsuit charges that a “corrupt, unlawful, and unconstitutional” relationship between law enforcement and the “ruthless killers” allowed for the assassination.
