Malcolm X lawsuit is an opportunity for NYPD and federal law enforcement to draw the curtain on an era of corruption and injustice

“For decades, [U.S. government agencies and the NYPD] viewed Black activism as a threat to national security, resulting in the unchecked targeting of prominent leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Marcus Garvey. This lawsuit seeks accountability for the systemic negligence and intentional actions that deprived Malcolm X’s family and the world of his life and legacy.”– Civil rights attorney Ben CrumpSix days before Malcolm X was gunned down at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, an undercover NYPD detective told the department he’d seen “a dry run” of Malcolm X’s assassination, which he believed would happen on the upcoming Sunday.Related Stories The next day, two members of Malcolm X’s security team were arrested and detained in connection with a bogus plot to bomb the Statue of Liberty.Malcolm X’s daughters charged in a lawsuit filed this week that the arrests were coordinated by the NYPD and federal law enforcement agencies “to weaken Malcolm X’s security, which knowingly facilitated his assassination.”In a letter written in 2011 and unveiled after his death in 2020, the undercover officer who drew the men into the plot wrote, “It was my assignment to draw the two men into a felonious federal crime, so...