RIP Malcolm Shabazz.. Grandson of Malcolm X Robbed & Killed in Mexico

Malcolm Shabazz

Malcolm Shabazz

Got a disturbing phone call earlier today noting that the grandson of Malcolm X, Malcolm el Shabazz had been murdered in Mexico. Initially I heard it was Mexico City but published reports are stating it was in Tijuana.. I doubled checked and hear it was actually Mexico City..  In either case the word was he was robbed, shot and tossed off a roof..I’m at a loss for words..I can only imagine what his family is going through.. The father of two was a good man destined to do great things..

Below is a link to give you crucial details as to what went down with Malcolm http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/malcolm-xs-grandson-killed-in-mexico-city.php

I met Malcolm a few years back when he was attending school here in the Bay Area and would frequent our radio station.. He was pretty open, candid and someone who had grown and was continuing to grow spiritually and politically..He was someone who we started to see traveling a lot.. he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and later he went to Libya and then Syria..He was definitely getting an international perspective on things..

Here’s a couple of interviews he did at KPFA on the Block Report w/ JR and HKR (Hard Knock Radio )that can give you some insight as to who he was and what he was about..

http://sfbayview.com/2010/the-legacy-of-el-hajj-malik-el-shabazz-lives-an-interview-wit-his-grandson-malcolm-shabazz/

http://sfbayview.com/2010/mumia-the-media-and-more-davey-d-moi-jr-and-malcolm-shabazz-on-hard-knock-radio/

http://www.blockreportradio.com/news-mainmenu-26/1000-live-from-saudi-arabia-an-interview-with-el-hajj-malcolm-shabazz.html

http://www.blockreportradio.com/radio-mainmenu-27/1316-hajj-malcolm-shabazz-speaks-on-the-legacy-of-martin-luther-king-jr.html

Earlier this year many of us were alarmed when we heard reports that Malcolm Shabazz had been detained by the FBI and was holed up somewhere for a couple of days with no rhyme or reason given as to how and why..he later issued a statement explaining his ordeal.. You can read that below..That in itself is harrowing and should be cause for alarm..

“I sincerely appreciate the care & concern of the People over my well-being after Press TV’s report of the most recent events which have transpired regarding the F.B.I.’s harassment of me.

Given the storm of lies, and half-truths that come with being associated with being the descendant of El Hajj Malik el Shabazz, also known as Minister Malcolm X, any and everything that I do; great or small, good or not so good, real or imagined is subject to controversy. However, in this missive I will take this opportunity to properly & fully disclose what transpired.

In the beginning of 2012 I had been informed that I was under investigation by the F.B.I.’s Counter Terrorism Task Force Unit located in Goshen, N.Y.

The agents of this division-and in collaboration with others-have visited several residences of which I was known by them to frequent. However, they would never come when they knew me to actually be there. They would leave their cards with the residents asking them to tell me to call them, and then would tell surrounding residents to observe the house and to notify them if they saw me.

These are the homes of long-time friends, and very close supporters. Yet, when federal agents begin knocking on someone’s door on multiple occasions to snoop, and ask questions, whether one is guilty of an offense or not, it’s enough to coerce people into distancing themselves from you. This cheap tactic employed by the F.B.I. is a means of agitation & harassment. They seek to neutralize my networking abilities.

They have visited locations in California, Chicago, Miami and most aggressively in New York.

People were advising me that if I had nothing to hide, then I should just contact them as requested and cooperate. Though I must say that in these kind of matters I am of a particular ethic. For one, I have been engaged in no criminal activity of their concern, and they could have located me if they so chose. Secondly, I don’t recognize the authority in them beckoning me.

It wasn’t even until my mother informed me that they had been contacting her that I truly became agitated. She advised me to see what they had to say, and so I obliged the next time they came around looking for me. My encounter was with 2 federal agents of Goshen, N.Y.’s Counter Terrorism Task Foci Unit. The primary agent identified himself as Special Agent Tom Brozicky.

They expressed concern over-as they put it-my “international travels”; I have lived & studied in Damascus, Syria for over a year, and now the U.S. is instigating conflict within the very same region; I went on ex-congresswoman/former presidential candidate Cynthia Mckinney’s delegation along with Dr. Randy Short to Libya, and met with Leader Muammar Gadhafi one week prior to N.A.T.O. intervention and I was most recently getting ready to travel to Tehran, Iran to be a participant of the International Fajr Film Festival and give a lecture addressing the issues of Hollywood and violence:

– Modern Violence & Terrorism,
– Provoking clashes between religions & populations

I was picked up by authorities after I filed for a visa to Iran, and 2 days prior to my departure. A detective squad from the City of Middletown Police Department surrounded me in the street about 2 blocks from where I was residing. They asked me my name, and I gave them an alias, but they were already well aware of who I actually was. I didn’t tell them my real name because I didn’t know what was going on. When I was brought before a Judge of City of Middletown court I was surprised to be informed that I was being charged with Grand Larceny, and False Impersonation charge. Then I was sent to jail, and told to appear again 7 days later. Then following court date the bogus charge of Grand Larceny, which they only put to justify stopping me in first place, was dropped. And they left me to face the False Impersonation. I was offered 90 days for the offense of giving the authorities the wrong name which I declined before bailing out after 2 weeks.

When I was being held within the belly of the beast on trumped up charges, to my rescue came the journalist at Press TV based in Iran. My relationship with powerful & progressive news outfit began in April of 2012, and prior to that I had discussions with their journalist regarding current events internationally. I developed a positive rapport with some of them, and as a result was invited to travel to Iran to discuss the impact of Hollywood in stereotyping Muslims, Iranians and African people. From January 15th through 18th, 2013, I was a featured interviewee for the Press TV documentary “The Façade of the American Dream”. And prior to my date of departure to Iran, Lifetime television released a television bio-picture called “Betty & Coretta” which was a sensationalistic misrepresentation of my grandparents, my mother and me. This film aside from being poorly acted, and shallow in depth also threatened to inflame old controversies, and open unhealed wounds and to remind the public of sad outcomes without ever identifying B.O.S.S.I., the C.I.A., F.B.I. and other forces that set the climate for my grandfather’s assassination, and made my family a long-suffering casualty of COINTELPRO, and other anti-Black repression programs. Naturally, anything done to stir up old hatred of The Shabazz Family will impact me as the name-sake, and first male heir of Malcolm X, and whether I am high or low in fortunes does not exempt me from this reality.

The formula for a public assassination is: the character assassination before the physical assassination; so one has to be made killable before the eyes of the public in order for their eventual murder to then deemed justifiable. And when the time arrives for these hits to be carried out you’re not going to see a C.I.A. agent with a suit & tie, and a badge that says “C.I.A.” walk up to someone, and pull the trigger. What they will do is to out-source to local police departments in the region of their target, and to employ those that look like the target of interest to infiltrate the workings in order to set up the environment for the eventual assassination (character, physical/incarceration, exile) to take place.

For several months prior to my arrest in late January, 2013 I faced a pattern of harassment from law enforcement which is usually reserved for important figures. On Thursday, November 1, 2012 @ 11:53pm in the park circle area of Middletown, N.Y. I was stopped by officers of the Middletown Police Department, and given a ticket for “J-Walking” (crossing in the middle of the street), which then escalated into a “Disorderly Conduct” supposedly because of the exchange of words that I had with the officers. I told them that they couldn’t possibly be serious for writing me a “J-Walking ticket”, that I didn’t appreciate how they were treating me and that they shouldn’t be looking at me as less of a man because they were in police uniform. For this I was arrested, the officers stole the little amount of money that I had on me, they then stripped me and threw me in a freezing precinct cell for the remainder of that early morning. I was finally taken before the “Judge Steven Brockett” around 1:30pm. He gave me an unreasonable bail, and then ordered that I be remanded to the Orange county Jail.

This penalty may seem a bit extreme or harsh to most of you, but here is where it gets worse: On Tuesday, October 30th, exactly 2 nights prior to this incident, the same officer “J Berman” who wrote me the ticket for “J-Walking” & “Disorderly Conduct” stopped me coming from out of a store in the same area, and questioned me as to what I was doing.

I told him that I was coming out of the store. He asked to see what I bought which was a pack of sun flower seeds. I had actually just so happened to be eating a few while he was talking to me, and I spit one of the shells on the ground. At this point officer “J Berman” threatened to write me a ticket for littering. Needless to say, I was dumbfounded, but I went home that night.

Yet, it still doesn’t even begin there. I had an encounter with other officers of the Midletown Police Department one week prior to officer “J Berman’s” threats to write me a ticket for spitting a sun flower seed on the ground: I was coming out of a restaurant with my mother, and her friend. As the 3 of us entered the car to leave 2 police cars converged on our vehicle, and boxed us in. My mother was petrified. With guns drawn I was then ordered to step out of the back seat. I asked them why to which they replied that I had several warrants for my arrest. I told them that they were mistaken, but I still complied with their request. Humiliated in front of all on-lookers I was then thrown on the car while the officers ripped through my pockets. After they were done they said that it was my lucky day because I actually didn’t have any warrants at all, and so I was free to go! One of these officer’s name was “R. Ribeiro”…

You may wonder if it could possibly get any worse than this. Well, it does! Approximately 3 weeks prior to the public humiliation of my mother, and me by “R Ribeiro” and another officer of the Middletown Police Department I found myself subject to the discrimination & prejudice of Mayor Joseph M. Destefano of Middletown, N.Y. himself. A friend, and I went out to eat at a restaurant in Middletown, N.Y. which is owned by the Mayor, and to our surprise he appeared from nowhere and asked us to leave. When we inquired as to why he stated that officials of the Middletown Police Department told him not to let us patronize his establishment. Mind you that this goes without incident.

As I stand for the people, God-Willing, I would pray that the same people wouldn’t hesitate to stand for me. If these unjust & heinous actions are tolerated & allowed to be done to me without recourse, then no one is safe. Just as Huewy P Newton of the Black Panther Party stated that police are in the white community to protect & serve, yet occupy ours like a foreign troop… I tell you that we shouldn’t fall victim to the conditioning of feeling inferior or fearful at the presence of law enforcement for no apparent reason.

With that being said, I was not arrested by federal agents. I was taken in by a squad from the City of Middletown, N.Y.’s Police Department. I was not being held in an “undisclosed location” so to speak. I was actually being held in the Orange County Jail in Goshen, N.Y. However, from the time that I was booked at the precinct, to standing before a Judge the next day who told me to come back in 7 more, to being processed at the Orange County Jail and up until 7 days later I was not permitted to make any calls to notify anyone of my status; as though I had just been kidnapped from of the street.

Unfortunately, until this day my family hasn’t been fully abreast of my situation as I haven’t had the opportunity to properly consult with any of them. Dr. Randy Short who notified Press TV of my situation is a close comrade of mine who was on our delegation in Libya. Media reports from Press TV about my situation were not intended to create controversy. In reality, I have a few associates that are affiliated with this reputable International media outlet, and they had expected to meet with me in Iran. So when I disappeared, and rumors spread, the inability to get concise information from a credible source prompted them to rouse public attention on my behalf, for which I am grateful. In April of 2012 I had the opportunity to be a guest analyst/contributor on Press TV. This network has a large following all over the world, and millions find it’s news, documentaries and programming to be both an educational, and insightful alternative to the conglomerated, and highly biased mainstream American & British news media. Regarding the Source magazine, nothing that they published was vetted by me, and was made by persons, at best, vaguely familiar with my situation. Further, I have never had an affiliation or relationship with The Source, nor have they ever directly consulted with me about anything.”

Email: mecka1084@gmail.com

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  1. Reblogged this on Dogma and Geopolitics.

  2. DrMeatwadPhD says

    It rings of a planned hit. Go to the roof, to take in the view, to take part in passing a,,, why go to the roof?

  3. Someting ain’t right. There is more to this story 4 sure. And agree it has that planned hit vibe….

  4. Heartbreak, outrage & at a loss for words. Beyond suspicious.

  5. Wow.. sad news.. (RED)

  6. Very very sad news. RIP Malcolm Shabazz!

  7. genomega1 says

    Reblogged this on News You May Have Missed and commented:
    RIP Malcolm Shabazz.. Grandson of Malcolm X Robbed & Killed in Mexico

  8. Thank you for posting his letter and I too am at a loss for words. Malcolm Junior, you are a martyr, one of the highest ranks in the right path. You made a place for yourself in a lot of people’s hearts in a short time. Your name will always go along with your grandfather the great Malcolm X. O African Americans i dunno if y’all have any idea how big of a loss Malcolm X was and how big a loss this is for u.

  9. What in the hell is in Mexico anyway?

  10. Calvin davenport says

    I met Malcome (Little) X after a speech he gave at MI State U in the 1950’s and I knew his late brother, Dr. Jack Little rather well. This has been a family of great dedication toward obtaining equal rights for all. I have not followed activities of his grandson who has now been murdered. This is a sad occasion and like others, I am curious about what has just taken place,

  11. Reblogged this on NOW BLOG THIS ! GUNNY.G ~ AMERICAN ! and commented:
    GyG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  12. Reblogged this on U.S. Constitutional Free Press.

  13. elizabth whitel says

    Hay keep it real

  14. Paula Johnson says

    All I can say is WOW!!! All of that harrassment because of who your’re related to?!! So sad.

  15. I am Speechless at this moment with a recurring attitude!!!

  16. rip ma nigga…

  17. The FBI killed this brother, no doubt about it… And on the New Moon…
    The devil does his work with rituals. #believeit
    RIP Brotha Shabazz! You won’t be forgotten!

  18. R.I.P. lil soulja

  19. RIP GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF TH REST

  20. this was so messed up R.I.P.

  21. outraged, the govt will never stop with the tyranny acts…..may his soul rest i peace

  22. o wow really

  23. People saying it smells a little fisheeeee (RED)

  24. RIP

  25. Reblogged this on Nii-Teiko and commented:
    there’s nothing for me to add really. all the information you need to know right now is here. just a bit speechless. it’s his Granddad’s (Omowale Malcolm X) Earthday anniversary on the 19th of this month. that just adds to this further

  26. May Allah Bless their souls.

  27. hiphopnewsmedia says

    man this ain’t right

  28. This family has given so much and endured so much hardship & pain. And now this. This just shows how deep the beast is willing to go to attempt to prevent AFRIKAN unity, strength, and liberation. Added to this, El Hajj Malik el Shabazz’ birthday is 8 days away, and the FBI/US government/Obama have put out a 2 million dollar ransom on Assata Olugbala Shakur – after 40 years?

    All of us who fight for freedom and fight so hard, bear the harshest sacrifices. Witness the atrocities continually committed against Haiti…STOP THE ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT ARISTIDE AND HAITI’S GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT http://sfbayview.com/2013/stop-the-attacks-on-president-aristide-and-haitis-grassroots-movement/

    So what do we do? Fight harder, continue to be strong, build to win.

    ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

  29. This is all over the net (RED)

  30. RIP …. All Power To The People

  31. rip crazy

  32. Reblogged this on theblakwatch and commented:
    Nearly 50 years after his assasination, the harrasment of Malcolm X’s family continues…..

  33. sittinducks says

    Where did he get money to travel extensively and study?

  34. Horrifying awful and around mother’s day plus close to his grandfather’s birthday. what happened in february took place to keep him from going to Iran and that timing was the anniversary of his grandfather. A lot of question no answers specifically. story changed to be a bar associated killing…for shame those that he knew part of doing in end; I and many have questions for JR and Bayview of what is the deal…HE LOST HIS LIFE PEOPLE!!! for shame

  35. Joshdamage says

    Did the FBI kill him…NO?! Ok…did Law Enforcement kill him? NO??? Wow did the U.S. Govt kill him? NO!!??? So a bunch of latino punks killed him…in Mexico? Prolly over the cost of some Booze. WOWWWWWW. Lol.

  36. @Joshdamage How could you possibly know anything sitting at home on a computer? It’s not what you THINK you know, it’s what you can prove….

  37. Peace and Blessings on his soul. Watched Denzel’s and the Late Tony Scott’s Man On Fire the other night after hearing the disturbing news. My biggest question and concern is, Why was he in Mexico with no bodyguards and/or protection?

    • And in the same vein sir, I wondered why the recently deported Rumec labor activist Miguel Suaez that Malcolm el Shabazz went down to Mexico to visit took him to where he did, which, according to several stories I have seen, was known to be a dicey edge of town known for salicious activity, hustling and violence. And when Malcolm el Shabazz was (alledgedly) jacked up by the bar thugs to pay a very over-inflated bill for (pardon me… but) “bitches and booze”, Suarez was separated from him and did not see him again until he was beaten unconscious in the street. How is it that, if these details are true, Suarez didn’t also get beaten as well? Why did he take el Shabazz to such a location?…just for seeking pleasure?

    • Agreed totally irresponsible whether intentional or unintentional. ther have been so far a number of variations to what happened. Here is a petition to kerry- http://www.change.org/petitions/secretary-of-state-john-kerry-assassination-investigation-for-malcolm-hajj-shabazz Plus I did contact to the Mexican Embassy demanding justice and the bar closed/owners held accountable. for going to Mexico for labor conferences I know that mexico has been brutal to to hose advocating for labor rights in the past example: journalists reporting the abuse, those for labor unions/rights where people have been wrongfully imprisoned, killed/tortured. EQUALS that Malcolm was SETUP….. and thru the memorial page we are still demanding answers/justice etc.

  38. As much as i would love to go to Mexico City, there is no where i would go without a bodyguard(s). The last time i went to Tijuana, i was the only one “carded” on our return in San Diego, Ca. Imop, i’m just pleased as punch to see videos, and listen to cds from beautiful Downtown Mexico City.

  39. In loving memory of El Hajj Malcolm Latif El Shabazz
    http://sfbayview.com/2013/in-loving-memory-of-el-hajj-malcolm-latif-el-shabazz/