Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, and attorney Ben Crump speak with MorningEdition about their intention to sue the NYPD and other government agencies for wrongful death.
"When I think of the challenges that my mother suffered, witnessing the assassination of her husband, I think now is the best time that we have to seek justice for a man who gave his life for human rights," said Shabazz in an interview with Morning Edition's Leila Fadel.Malcolm X holds up a paper for the crowd to see during a Black Muslim rally in New York City on Aug. 6, 1963.Malcolm X holds up a paper for the crowd to see during a Black Muslim rally in New York City on Aug.
"The government had factual and exculpatory information that they kept from the gentlemen who were wrongly convicted, and more importantly from his family," Crump said in the same interview with Fadel.The two men Crump mentioned, Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, were exonerated in 2021 after being wrongly convicted of the 1965 assassination.
Crump compares the circumstances surrounding Malcom X's death to other black liberation leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party, citing the surveillance of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover."They [the government] were afraid of the rise of a Black messiah," said Crump.
He wrote:"I participated in actions that in hindsight were deplorable and detrimental to my own Black people."
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