Speaker 1: Right now, it's time for the Way Black History Fact.
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Speaker 1: Way Black History Fact is going to be a little
Speaker 1: different because we're not going to go all that far back,
Speaker 1: but we're going to give you some perspective on something
Speaker 1: that happened many moons ago. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: Malcolm X's assassination. So buckle up. Is from the Black
Speaker 1: Information That Work. Three daughters of Malcolm X are suing
Speaker 1: the CIA, FBI, the York and the New York Police Department,
Speaker 1: and many others for their role in the nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: five assassination of the civil rights leader. On Friday, November fifteenth,
Speaker 1: Malcolm X's daughters and a state filed a one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollar lawsuit in Manhattan federal alleging that law enforcement
Speaker 1: officials were aware of and involved in the assassination plot.
Speaker 1: Per The Associated Press, attorney Ben Crump said he hoped
Speaker 1: federal and city officials would read the lawsuit and quote,
Speaker 1: learn all the dastardly deeds that were done by the predecessors,
Speaker 1: and try to write these historic wrongs. Speculation and questions
Speaker 1: have surrounded Malcolm X's death for decades. The thirty nine
Speaker 1: year old civil rights icon was killed while he was
Speaker 1: speaking to a crowd of hundreds at Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom
Speaker 1: on February twenty first, nineteen sixty five. Three men were
Speaker 1: convicted of crimes in connection to the killing, but two
Speaker 1: were exonerated in twenty twenty one after investigators determined they
Speaker 1: were tried on shaky evidence and withheld information. Man How
Speaker 1: deep does this go? The lawsuit accuses the prosecution team
Speaker 1: of suppressing the government's role in the assassination. According to
Speaker 1: the suit, law enforcement officials had a corrupt, unlawful, and
Speaker 1: unconstitutional relationship with ruthless killers that went unchecked for many
Speaker 1: years and was actively concealed, condoned, protected, and facilitated by
Speaker 1: government agents. The suit further alleges that NYPD and federal
Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies arrest did Malcolm X's security detail days
Speaker 1: before the assassination and intentionally removed officers from inside the
Speaker 1: ballroom where he was killed. Federal agencies also had personnel
Speaker 1: in the ballroom who failed to protect him. According to
Speaker 1: the suit, Malcolm X's wife, Betty Shabbaz, the plaintiffs and
Speaker 1: their entire family suffered have suffered the pain of the
Speaker 1: unknown for decades. Per the lawsuit, quote, they did not
Speaker 1: know who murdered Malcolm X, why he was murdered, the
Speaker 1: level of NYPD, FBI and CIA orchestration, the identity of
Speaker 1: the governmental agents who conspired to ensure his demise, or
Speaker 1: who fraudulently covered up their role. The damage caused to
Speaker 1: the Shabbaz family is unimaginable, immense, and irreparable, the suit states. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: for those that may not know, you might know the
Speaker 1: name Malcolm X, but there's been some questions surrounding his death.
Speaker 1: We've known this for pretty much the entirety of our lives,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people that just see the active
Speaker 1: sanitation of you know, Malcolm X in recent years and
Speaker 1: don't know who, what he stood for, who he fought
Speaker 1: for fully, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm glad that that these things are coming to light,
Speaker 1: because of course these are things that we we knew
Speaker 1: this and for a long time, but you know, the
Speaker 1: fact that they are coming to the table with enough
Speaker 1: evidence to actually make a case for it. That's that's
Speaker 1: not nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, god speed to Ben Crump. Our federal
Speaker 2: government has shown that it's not eager to right the
Speaker 2: wrongs of its predecessors. So you know, we'll see how
Speaker 2: this turns out.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But obviously this is something that we're going
Speaker 1: to keep following, and if nothing comes from it, at
Speaker 1: least there there's finally a moment in time when all
Speaker 1: the evidence gets presented and we don't look as paranoid
Speaker 1: and aasually as we always have