WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan — The family of Malcolm

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

Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm conspired to kill Malcolm

“We fought mainly for our mother, who was here,” Ilyasah Shabazz said of Betty Shabazz, who died in 1997, from the site of the old Audubon Ballroom, where her father was killed. “My mother was pregnant when she came here to see her husband speak, someone she totally admired, and to witness this horrible assassination of her husband…”

Malcolm He was 39 years old.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the family, said the lawsuit alleges that authorities engaged in a decades-long cover-up that deprived Malcolm X and his family of justice.

“It is not lost on us that justice has been delayed in this matter,” Crump said. “The government’s fingerprints are all over the assassination of Malcolm X and finally, we believe we have the evidence to prove it.”

In the years since, questions have multiplied about the role of law enforcement in Malcolm X’s death.

“Over the last three years, every day, every week, every month, we have uncovered new evidence,” Crump said.

In the lawsuit, the family said the prosecutor’s team ignored the government’s role in the killing.

The lawsuit alleges there was a “corrupt, illegal and unconstitutional” relationship between law enforcement and “ruthless killers that went unchecked for many years and was actively covered up, tolerated, protected and facilitated by government agents,” leading to murder. by Malcolm

According to the lawsuit, the New York Police, in coordination with federal law enforcement, arrested the activist’s security guards days before the assassination and intentionally removed their officers from inside the ballroom where Malcolm X was killed. Meanwhile, he adds, federal agencies had personnel, including undercover agents, in the ballroom but failed to protect it.

Three men were convicted of crimes related to the death, but two of them were exonerated in 2021 after investigators reexamined the case and concluded that some evidence was flimsy and authorities withheld some information.

The family hopes the new lawsuit will lead them to the truth.

“We will turn over every stone, we will open every drawer, we will examine every file to uncover the truth about what happened to Malcolm X,” attorney Jonathan Moore said.

Law enforcement has not yet responded due to ongoing litigation.

(Associated Press and ABC News contributed to this report.)