Witness to Malcolm X’s assassination says he heard police ask ‘Is he with us?’ as they restrained killer

A witness to Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination says he heard feedback from cops as they restrained the alleged killer that counsel legislation enforcement was in on the killing. 

The main points have been relayed Tuesday by civil rights lawyer Ben Crump and co-council Ray Hamlin throughout a press convention. 

Talking on the press convention, Mustafa Hassan, 84, mentioned he was part of Malcolm X’s safety element on the Audubon Ballroom in New York Metropolis on Feb. 21, 1965, the day he was assassinated. 

Hassan mentioned he tried to cease an armed man – later recognized as Thomas Hagan, a.okay.a., “Talmadge X Hayer” – from fleeing the scene. 

Police intervened to cease Malcolm’s followers from beating Hayer.

Hassan claimed he heard officers asking one another: “Is he with us?” 

Hassan mentioned the police’s actions recommended they have been attempting “help in [Hayer] getting away.”

He added that he was by no means questioned by police regardless of remaining on the scene. 

“We are going to present that the defendants hid proof, which provides us a explanation for motion,” Crump mentioned. “It wasn’t on account of an absence of diligence. Nobody will say that Malcolm’s household had accepted what the federal government had advised them. They all the time sought the reality.”

Fox Information Digital has reached out to the NYPD for remark. 

Malcolm X was shot 21 occasions after showing on stage to provide a speech on the Audubon Ballroom in Higher Manhattan.

His spouse and daughters have been amongst these within the viewers. 

Three males have been convicted, however two have been exonerated in 2021 after a renewed investigation into the instances towards them confirmed the proof to achieve convictions was shaky and that authorities had held again some info. 

Malcolm X was a outstanding civil rights chief who preached a extra radical message than his modern, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

From the late Fifties via the early Sixties, he gained prominence as a significant voice of the Nation of Islam, advocating for Black individuals to assert their civil rights “by any means needed.” 

In the direction of the tip of his life, Malcolm X break up from the black militant group and transformed to Orthodox Islam.

After a visit to Mecca, he began talking in regards to the potential for racial unity – incomes him the ire of the Nationwide of Islam, who noticed him as a traitor.