Afro-Mexicans Demand Answers in Response to Death of Malcolm Latif Shabazz Karen Juanita Carrillo - NNPA
go to original August 21, 2013

Shabazz, the grandson of human rights activist Malcolm X, was killed in Mexico City’s touristy Plaza Garibaldi area. (northbayuprising.com)

It’s been three months since the May 9 murder of Malcolm Latif Shabazz in the capital city of Mexico, and there remains no resolution for the Shabazz family about the crime, notes Wilner Metelus, president of the Citizens Committee for the Defense of the Naturalized and of Afro-Mexicans (CCDNAM).

Metelus’ CCDNAM, a group designed to fight for the rights of Afro-Mexicans and for those Blacks or Africans who reside in Mexico or even pass through the country, has been Mexico’s most vocal organization in demanding justice for Shabazz in the days and now months following his murder.

Shabazz, the grandson of human rights activist Malcolm X, was killed after getting into an argument over an exorbitant $1,200 bar bill at the Palace Club in Mexico City’s touristy Plaza Garibaldi area. Within a week of the murder, bar waiters David Hernández Cruz and Manuel Alejandro Pérez de Jesús were charged with having punched, kicked and even using a stick to beat Latif Shabazz during the attack. But there has been little progress on the case since then.

The city’s district attorney noted that security cameras at the Palace Club had been moved to suggest that they had not recorded the incident, but many believe that the entire incident can be found on the camera’s tapes.

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