A lawsuit for his 1965 murder against the New York City Police Department and other agencies has been announced by the daughter of murdered black civil rights activist Malcolm X.
Ilyasah Shabazz claims that US officials hid evidence that they "conspired to and executed their plan to assassinate" her father through deceptive means.
At the spot where he was fatally shot in New York exactly 58 years ago, she made an announcement regarding the upcoming legal action.
According to a lawyer, the legal filing also included the names of the FBI and CIA.
Mrs. Shabazz, 60, witnessed her father's murder when she was just two years old. He was being prepared to speak at an auditorium in Harlem when three armed men opened fire on him 21 times.
She made the statement on Tuesday at the location, which has since been turned into a memorial site, as she filed notices of claims, the first step in filing a lawsuit. "For years, our family has fought for the truth to come to light regarding his murder," she said.
Benjamin Crump, the attorney defending the family, claimed at the press conference that key figures in the American government had planned Malcom X's murder.
Throughout his remarks, he referred to former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
According to Mr. Crump, Malcolm X's family plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit and ask for damages in the neighborhood of $100 million.
He declared, "It's not just about the triggermen. "It concerns those who planned to carry out this heinous act with the triggermen. ".
The NYPD informed the BBC that it wouldn't comment on ongoing legal matters. An inquiry for comment was not immediately answered by the FBI or CIA.
Prior to his contentious break with the Nation of Islam, which promoted black Americans' secession, Malcolm X served as the organization's principal spokesperson. When he died, he was 39 years old.
One man, a member of the Nation of Islam, admitted to killing him.
Two additional men who had been found guilty of his murder in 2021 had their convictions overturned after a New York state judge ruled that there had been a miscarriage of justice.
After the New York attorney general discovered that the prosecution had withheld information that would have likely cleared the two men of the murder, they were later completely exonerated.
Family of the falsely imprisoned men filed a lawsuit and received $26 million (£21 million) from New York City and $10 million from New York State.
