Malcolm X’s Daughters Present ‘New Evidence’ Involving Police, FBI In His Murder

Daughters of Malcolm X, an American human rights activist murdered 56 years ago, claimed that “new test” implicating the NYPD and the FBI in his murder in Big Apple, according to local media. It’s about posthumous confession of a policeman.

Qubiliah, Ilyasah Yes Gamilah shabazz, accompanied by their lawyers, asked at a press conference that the authorities they reopen the file of civil rights leader in light of ‘new evidence’ presented by relative of deceased undercover police officer named Raymond Wood.

Wood confessed in a letter before his death that the police (NYPD) and the FBI had conspired to “undermine” the civil rights movement and that their mission was to infiltrate to encourage its leaders and members to commit crimes.

In the letter, signed in 2011, the deceased policeman explained that he had to infiltrate the movement “to find evidence of criminal activity and that the FBI could discredit and arrest their leaders“, and that” under the direction “of his superiors he encouraged his members to” commit criminal acts “, the channel collects NBC.

Wood said he was responsible for the arrest of two members of Malcolm X’s security team days before the public speech at the Audubon Ballroom, in the Washington Heights neighborhood (Manhattan), where was shot on February 21, 1965.

About a year before his assassination, Malcolm X had left the Nation of Islam, which elicited death threats from community members.

Three men were charged with the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment: Mujahid Abdul Halim (also known as Talmadge Hayer or Thomas Hagan), Muhammad Abdul Aziz | (aka Norman 3X Butler) and Khalil Islam | (aka Thomas 15X Johnson). Islam died in 2009 and the other two are on parole.

“I participated in actions which in retrospect were deplorable and detrimental to the advancement of my own black people. My actions on behalf of the New York Police were taken. under duress and fearread the confession, which was read by Wood’s parent.

One of Malcolm X’s daughters said she had lived through decades of uncertainty, saying “any evidence that further informs the truth after this terrible tragedy should be fully investigated.”

The Manhattan Procuratorate said in February 2020, he was examining the case and that he had met with representatives of Project Innocence after a Netflix documentary series raised questions about two of the men convicted in the case.

In a statement released to media on Saturday, the NYPD said it had “provided all available documents regarding this matter to the district attorney” and assured the forces “remain committed to assist in any way.”

Source: EFE

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