Murder of Malcolm X: Cover-up lawsuit by the NYPD and other government agencies

NEW YORK — Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump and the family of murdered civil rights leader Malcolm X gathered Tuesday in Upper Manhattan to announce their intention to sue the NYPD and other government agencies over Malcolm’s murder.

The lawsuit will allege that the agencies had “factual and exculpatory evidence that they fraudulently withheld from Malcolm X’s family and people wrongly convicted of crimes related to the murder of Malcolm X,” Crump said in a statement ahead of the press conference.

The announcement of intent to sue comes exactly 58 years after the civil rights leader was shot and killed while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.

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This follows decades of discussion and debate about a possible link between Malcolm’s death and federal and New York government agencies, including the NYPD, the FBI, and the CIA.

A year and a half ago, two men convicted of the murder of Malcolm X were acquitted.

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