A thought about the police and FBI misconduct in the Malcolm X murder case

[crud]

I don't know much about this, but it makes me suspicious that FBI and police were trying to hide the real killers by engineering these convictions.

[randr]

1. They all infiltrated peaceful movements in the 60's

with armed provoketors and gave them all the blemish of violence.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Those days with J Edgar pulling the strings and NYPD willing...

to be pulled, I have no doubt.

Either they knew tbe real (untouchable) killers or they just wanted to close the case as fast as possible.

[Gaugamela]

3. Cointelpro

From Wikipedia:

COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations.[3][4] FBI records show COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals the FBI deemed subversive,[5] including feminist organizations,[6] the Communist Party USA,[7] anti–Vietnam War organizers, activists of the civil rights movement and Black Power movement (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement (AIM), independence movements (including Puerto Rican independence groups such as the Young Lords and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party), a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left, and right-wing groups such as the Ku Klux Klan[8] and the National States' Rights Party.[9]

COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[14][15][16][17] According to a Senate report, the FBI's motivation was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order".[18

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton

[crud]

4. Thanks for the info

Wondering why this isn't the news story. Wondering why they frame it as another example of police misconduct...nevermind...ugh

[Tomconroy]

5. I've followed this story since I read the Autobiography of Malcolm X in high school.

The FBI and police did not kill Malcolm X. They were probably negligent in not preventing the murder.
They did not cover up for the murderers.

[malaise]

6. Duh! n/t