To Be Equal: Malcolm X lawsuit is an opportunity

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – “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 Crump Six 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. 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...