Malcolm X’s family sues FBI, CIA and NYPD over his murder

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Malcolm X’s family sues FBI, CIA and NYPD over his *******

The family of murdered ****** civil rights activist Malcolm X are suing the FBI, the CIA and the New York police department (NYPD) for $100m (£79m), accusing them of a role in his ******.

The lawsuit says the agencies were involved in the plot and ******* to stop the ********.

“We believe that they all conspired to ************ Malcolm X, one of the greatest thought leaders of the 20th century,” Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney who is representing the family, said at a news conference.

Malcolm X was ******* in 1965 when three armed men shot him 21 times as he was preparing to speak in New York.

The lawsuit alleges that a “corrupt, unlawful, and unconstitutional” relationship between law enforcement and the “ruthless killers” allowed for the *******.

Links between the agencies and the killers “went unchecked for many years and was actively concealed, condoned, protected, and facilitated by government agents”, the lawsuit says.

It says the NYPD, coordinating with the agencies, also detained members of Malcolm X’s security team days before the ********* and intentionally removed their officers from inside the ballroom where he was shot.

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

The family announced their

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last year.

The CIA and the 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 litigation.

Malcolm X was a lead spokesman for the Nation of Islam – which advocated separatism for ****** Americans – before his acrimonious split from the organisation. He was 39 when he was *******.

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

In 2021, two other men convicted of ******** him 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 prosecutors had withheld evidence that would have probably cleared them of the *******.

Family of the wrongly convicted men sued and won $26m from New York City and $10m from New York state.

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