Black Muslim Bakery Leader Caught On Tape

From the San Francisco Bay area Contra Costa Times:

Secret video raises questions about bakery leader’s role in Bailey killing

By Thomas Peele, Bob Butler, Mary Fricker and Josh Richman
THE CHAUNCEY BAILEY PROJECT
06/18/2008

Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV kept the gun used to kill journalist Chauncey Bailey in his closet after the attack and bragged of playing "hella dumb" when investigators asked him about the shooting, according to a secretly recorded police video.

He describes Bailey’s shooting in detail on the video, then, laughing, he denies he was there, and boasts that his friendship with the case’s lead detective protected him from charges.

Bey IV has not been arrested in Bailey’s Aug. 2 death; Devaughndre Broussard, a then-19-year-old bakery handyman, has been charged in the killing. In an interview last week at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, where he is being held on unrelated kidnapping and torture charges, Bey IV, 22, denied any role in the killing.

The video and scores of other documents and police recordings obtained by the Chauncey Bailey Project raise questions about Bey IV’s possible role in a conspiracy to kill Bailey, who was working on a story about the financially troubled bakery.

The videotape and documents incriminate Bey IV, said one expert who reviewed them.

"All of those things together make it a very powerful, compelling set of facts that Yusuf Bey was involved and that Yusuf Bey should be charged, at a minimum, as an accessory to murder," said Peter Keane, a veteran criminal lawyer and dean emeritus of Golden Gate University Law School…

In the video, Bey brags of mocking police and keeping the sawed-off shotgun a masked gunman used to shoot Bailey three times at point-blank range.

"I had it in my room the whole time after it happened," Bey IV said.

In the video, Bey IV jerks back his head to mimic a shotgun blast to the face, saying, "Pow, pow! Poof!"

More than 10 months have passed since Oakland police arrested Broussard, now 20. He confessed to the killing, but he has since recanted and pleaded not guilty. His trial has yet to be scheduled.

The documents and recordings give no indication police challenged inconsistencies in statements given by Bey IV and Broussard; nor do they indicate Bey IV was ever questioned about statements on the video regarding his description of Bailey’s death or possession of the shotgun.

The documents also raise questions about the accuracy of the lead detective’s summation of evidence used to charge Broussard. The summary attributes words and details to Broussard that do not appear in the confession as recorded or in the detective’s notes of it…

It looks like Mr. Bey IV wasn’t just playing "hella dumb."

He is "hella dumb."

Major kudos to the Chauncey Bailey Project team for staying on this case.

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