Thursday, February 23: Justice Delayed, Not Denied
The family of Malcolm X have decided to pursue justice
Family members of Malcolm X, the legendary civil rights activist who was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965 at the age of 39, announced this week their plans to file a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department and various other government agencies, alleging they intentionally concealed evidence related to the murder after it happened.
This should be a pretty open and shut case, considering the number of Netflix documentaries and news articles documenting the role that police and government agencies played in Malcolm’s murder. Benjamin Crump, the attorney representing the family, provided "formal notice" of the legal complaint to the city of New York, the state of New York, the NYPD, the district attorney's office and several federal law enforcement agencies including the FBI and the CIA.
Crump said Malcolm X's family intends to file a wrongful death lawsuit for $100 million, alleging that the agencies named "had factual evidence and exculpatory evidence that they fraudulently concealed from the men who were wrongfully convicted for the assassination of Malcolm X."
$100 million is alot of money, but the family deserves every last penny. Ideally these funds would come out of police department budgets, but in all likelihood, any money awarded would be taxpayer money anyway.
Side Items
Trump Visits Train Wreck: Reality TV star and former president Donald Trump took time to visit East Palestine, Ohio yesterday, where he criticized the Biden administration’s handling of the disaster to anyone who would listen. Strangely, Trump doesn’t believe deregulation had anything to do with the train crash and insists that he traveled to the area to make sure residents were taken care of. It’s kinda weird seeing the former president hand out MAGA hats at a McDonald’s, but I guess that’s the stage of imperial decline that we’re in now
Another Winter Storm: The Midwestern US got hit with a surprise winter storm this week, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people and dropping a foot of snow in parts of Arizona and New Mexico. Interestingly, the southern California region is currently under its first blizzard warning in decades. We’ll see how our friends on the west coast handle a little snowy adversity
Nigeria’s Upcoming Election: 18 presidential candidates in Nigeria’s general election have signed a peace accord in the capital, Abuja, in hopes of preventing any unrest surrounding the February 25 elections. Among those 18 candidates, four are generally considered to be top contenders. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu, faces his former associate and Nigeria’s former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Additionally, the Labour Party’s Peter Obi, has emerged as a surprise third candidate to challenge the traditional duality in Nigeria’s political landscape. The fourth candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), is seen as something of a wild card in the race