Afro-Mexican Activists Vow to Continue Protests Over Murder of Malcolm X Grandson Saeed Shabazz - The Final Call
go to original July 19, 2013

Afro-Mexican activists protest the handling of the brutal murder of Malcolm Shabazz. (Think Mexican)

In the early morning hours of July 14 The Final Call received a “communicado” from Mexico City-based Citizens for the Defense of Naturalized Afro-Mexicans saying protests demanding justice after the killing of the grandson of Malcolm X would go on despite a police raid that ended a hunger strike.

Dr. Wilner Metelus, president of the group, called for the “support (of) all human beings on the planet that there is justice for our brother Malcolm Latif who was murdered in cold blood in Mexico. We will not step back!”

According to Dr. Randy Short, the Baltimore-based spokesman for the group, approximately 1,000 riot-clad Mexican police officers attacked 30 members of the organization on the eighth-day of a hunger strike outside the Federal District of Mexico City’s Governor’s Palace.

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