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.
source: CNN
