© UnknownMalcolm Shabazz releases statement after being detained by FBI
Shabazz's death was also confirmed on Twitter and Facebook by Terrie Williams, a friend of the Shabazz family.
While details of his death are still unclear, there are unconfirmed reports that Shabazz died of injuries sustained during a robbery.
Shabazz is the son of Qubilah Shabazz, who was the second daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. In his youth, he set a fire that caused the death of his grandmother. For that crime, he plead plead guilty to manslaughter, was found guilty of arson, and was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile detention facility.
As an adult, Shabazz continued to have trouble with the law, The New York Times reported. He plead guilty to attempted robbery in 2002 and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Just months after his release in 2006, he was arrested again, this time for punching a hole in a store window.
At the time of his death, Shabazz was attending John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and working on two books.
Comment: The author appears to be an advocate of Reagonomics, however his economic policies were devastating to all but the wealthy. When Ronald Reagan came into office 1981, unemployment was at 7.5%. Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy, then raised taxes on the middle and lower class. Corporations shipped more jobs out of the U.S. while hiring cheap foreign labor in order to make a bigger profit. While corporations made billions, Americans across the country lost their jobs. As 1982 came to a close, unemployment was nearly 11%. Unemployment began to drop as the years went on, but the jobs that were created were low paying and barely helped people make ends meet. The middle and lower class had their wages nearly frozen as the top earners saw dramatic increases in salary. For more information on Reagan's legacy read:
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