Family of Malcolm X files lawsuit against NYPD, FBI and CIA over activist’s 1965 assassination in Washington Heights, NYC [Video]

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan — The family of Malcolm X has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the government and law enforcement agencies, including the New York City Police Department, over their father’s assassination.

The lawsuit alleges the FBI, CIA and NYPD conspired in the activist’s assassination in 1965 and engaged in a decades-long coverup that has interfered with the family’s search for truth and justice.

Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter, who represented her family at a New York City press conference, and her lawyers claim that they have uncovered new evidence that they believe will prove that the NYPD and FBI conspired to kill Malcolm X.

“We fought primarily for our mother, who was here,” Ilyasah Shabazz said of Betty Shabazz, who died in 1997, from the site of the former Audubon Ballroom, where her father was killed. “My mother was pregnant when she came here to see her husband speak; someone who she …