Should Ben Crump have a seat?

Question: Why is Ben Crump on the case to settle a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the New York Police Department and other government agencies concerning the Malcolm X slaying? He’s handling other high profile cases like the Tyre Nichols death. He’s known for being beside families for Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd, just to list a few. Now, Crump is cashing in as the poverty pimp in chief once again.

The daughter of Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz is next to Crump asking for $100 million dollars from city, state, and federal agencies in the wake of her father’s death fifty-eight years ago.

Due to the Innocence Project, Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam were set free, cleared on all charges, and awarded $26 million dollars. Yet the pain continues to linger.

Malcolm X was a powerful figure during the 1960’s Civil Rights (which should be Individual Rights) Movement. His youth, smarts, candor, wit, and charm permitted him to be a prescient figure for the Nation of Islam. Half-jokingly, he even predicted his own early demise.

For his daughter to seek this amount of money from the government is a risk but much calculated on her part, not Crump’s. This charlatan is just propped up to show that he seeks to have a firm grasp on the culture and a hand on the percentage of that pocket change that the daughter is asking for now.

She is still wracked with grief because as a toddler, she witnessed the brutal death of her own father. This would prompt anyone to want to gain the money, yes, but show as an example that the government played dirty during the whole debacle.

The point is to have as much money as possible considered so that the agencies will take the matter seriously. Most likely, she will get only a fraction of the cash if the settlement is presented in court. A settlement out of court seems to be on the horizon, though.

But Crump has to get his shine on in any way he can. He has to soft shoe and tap dance around matters that are grave as mentioned above. With Malcolm X’s murder, it is far too evident to see that Crump just wants money and prestige. He is a hollow man with a penchant for being a legal gold digger and vicious opportunist that degrades the title of opportunist. Crump may deliver on his promise but not before puffing his chest out like the rooster and collecting his money bag. Sure, the families get the lion’s share, but just consider the fact that he has so many cases and handles millions of dollars on each one. With Shabazz are her other family members who just want justice if not a few coins in their digital wallets. She is the most vocal, however. At a time where racial tension is running high and crime ticking slightly higher in certain places in America (not much) the family of Malcolm X knew that now would be the perfect time to go after the government.

The government’s sole role is to protect individual rights. That’s it. For it to be involved with the death of anyone who didn’t pose a threat warrants for the survivors to be compensated for their sorrow, their hurt, their pain.

If the NYPD, FBI, and other outfits did have a hand in the killing of Malcolm X, then that points to how ugly the alphabet boys and girls can get. There is no reason why any governmental service paid for by the American people should be messing around with and causing the death of such a luminary and major figure as X.