Muhammad Aziz is suing NYC for a whopping $40 million for wrongfully convicting him of killing Malcolm X. Wrongful conviction is painful and shouldn’t happen to anyone. He deserves even more than $40 million via Vlad;
A man recently exonerated in a wrongful conviction of killing Malcolm X has filed a $40 million lawsuit against New York City.
The civil rights suit filed in a Brooklyn federal court this past Thursday found Muhammad Aziz calling out the NYPD, along with their intelligence unit and the Bureau of Special Services and Investigations, saying his “wrongful conviction was the product of flagrant official misconduct, including, inter alia.” In Aziz’s suit, numerous identified and anonymous city employees who were involved in the original investigation were named as defendants.
The lawsuit said, “Aziz spent 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit and more than 55 years living with the hardship and indignity attendant to being unjustly branded as a convicted murderer of one of the most important civil rights leaders in history.” Aziz settled with New York State in April 2022 for $5 million. Aziz’s conviction was vacated in November 2021.
Who really killed Malcolm X?
When Malcolm X was shot on February 21, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City, Thomas Hagan was shot in the leg by one of Malcolm X’s bodyguards while attempting to flee from the building. Hampered by his bullet wound, Hagan was grabbed by several members of the crowd who witnessed the shooting and physically beat him before police officers arrived and arrested Hagan at the scene. He later confessed to the crime but said that Thomas Johnson (Khalil Islam) and Norman 3X Butler (Muhammad Abdul Aziz), two suspects arrested at a later point in time, were not involved in the assassination.
Hagan stated in a 1977 affidavit that he had planned the shooting with four others (Johnson and Butler not being among them) to seek revenge for Malcolm X’s public criticism of Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. He said that one of his accomplices distracted Malcolm X’s bodyguards by starting an argument about having been pickpocketed. When the bodyguards moved toward the diversion and away from Malcolm X, a man with a shotgun stepped up to him and shot him in the chest. After that, Hagan himself and another of his accomplices shot several rounds at Malcolm X with semi-automatic handguns.
Hagan expressed support that the convictions of Thomas Johnson and Norman 3X Butler were overturned, matching his original claims that they were not involved in the murder of Malcolm X.
He is still a practicing Muslim, but has left the Nation of Islam, no longer agreeing with their ideology. He has expressed “regrets and sorrow” for having shot Malcolm X.
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