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Muslims Arrested For Murder Of Oakland Reporter

From those defenders of the faith at the Associated Press:

Police: Gun linked to journalist’s death

By MICHELLE LOCKE, Associated Press Writer

OAKLAND, Calif. - Police are testing guns recovered from raids in which authorities arrested seven members of an Oakland Black Muslim splinter group who investigators suspect were involved in the killing of a journalist and two others.

Police Lt. Ersie Joyner said one of the guns found during the raids is thought to be the weapon that a masked attacker used Thursday morning to slay Chauncey Bailey, a journalist who was walking to work.

Bailey, 57, was the editor of the Oakland Post, and had been working on a story about Your Black Muslim Bakery before he was ambushed and slain, his colleagues said.

Standing in a black suit with a bow tie, a member of the bakery organization said Friday that the crimes that police described run against the principles of his group.

“This is not a reflection of Dr. Yusuf Bey,” said Shamir Yusuf Bey in a sidewalk news conference in front of the bakery. The organization’s members all take the founder’s surname. “We are all sons of Dr. Yusuf Bey. He has taught us morals, he has taught us how to be advocates in our community.”

Joyner said he believes those responsible for Bailey’s death were among the seven people arrested Friday. Police say they still do not have a motive for the killing, and that they did not know Bailey was working on a story about the bakery.

Before dawn Friday, officers raided the Muslim group’s headquarters at the original bakery, as well as three houses in Oakland that are tied to the group. Among those arrested was the son of the group’s founder, Yusuf Bey IV, who was booked on charges including homicide, robbery and assault.

“The search warrant yielded several weapons and other evidence of value including evidence linking the murder of Chauncey Bailey to members of the Your Black Muslim Bakery,” said Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan. He said the raids were part of a yearlong investigation into a variety of violent crimes, including two homicides earlier this year and a kidnapping and torture case…

Your Black Muslim Bakery was founded in 1968 by the late Yusuf Bey as a haven for struggling urban families. It sells natural baked goods alongside books by Malcolm X and other black leaders.

Bailey was a longtime reporter for the Oakland Tribune before becoming editor of the Post, a weekly newspaper geared toward the Bay Area black community, earlier this year.

He had written stories for the Tribune about the bakery and its founder when Bey was facing rape charges in Alameda County. Most of those charges were dropped, although one was pending when Bey died in 2003.

Yusuf Bey IV, who was in custody Friday, took over the original bakery and several franchises. In 2005, he was accused of being the ringleader in a group of black Muslims who smashed liquor bottles in corner stores and berated the Muslim owners for selling alcohol to the black community.

Your Black Muslim bakery has had financial problems for several years and filed for bankruptcy in October 2006.

What a shock.

And note how little we are told about “Your Black Muslim Bakery.” And the thugs who run it.

They are all adherents of Minister Farrakhan’s illustrious Nation Of Islam.

Maybe the AP reporter is afraid for her life.

“This is not a reflection of Dr. Yusuf Bey,” said Shamir Yusuf Bey in a sidewalk news conference in front of the bakery. The organization’s members all take the founder’s surname. “We are all sons of Dr. Yusuf Bey. He has taught us morals, he has taught us how to be advocates in our community.”

Right.

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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Saturday, August 4th, 2007 at 11:15 am. You can leave a response.

5 Responses to “Muslims Arrested For Murder Of Oakland Reporter”

  1. wardmama4
    August 4th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    This is so wrong on many levels -
    1) Bailey is black and a known supporter of the black community - does that mean islam trumps race?
    2) I (silly me) thought only criminals and rappers took more than one name - most especially the same name - and also supported that ‘don’t snitch mentality
    3) This is in a black community and seems to be attacking the community itself? (see #1 above)
    4) Isn’t this sort of like the Mafia and/or Organized crime ‘families’ - intimidation, thuggery and violence to subdue and/or exhort cooperation amongst the local community?

    And in the Bay Area - I thought that was home base for the peace, love and understanding crowd.

  2. oki
    August 4th, 2007 at 12:11 pm

    Oh god… “Black Muslim Bakery”??? If I were a White Catholic Butcher could I open a store named in the same manner? Probably not.

  3. SG
    August 4th, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    An update from Oakland’s Inside Bay Area:

    Police: Oakland Post editor’s killer confesses to slaying

    By Harry Harris, Kristin Bender and Kelly Rayburn, STAFF WRITERS

    08/04/2007

    A 19-year-old handyman at Your Black Muslim Bakery admitted to police Friday night that he ambushed and killed Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, investigators said.

    Police said Devaughndre Broussard told them he killed Bailey because he was angry over stories the journalist had written about the bakery, its employees and leaders in the past. Investigators said Broussard also was concerned about stories that he thought Bailey might be working on.

    Bailey had apparently been working on a story about the group and its finances, authorities said.

    Broussard made the admission to Sgts. Derwin Longmire and Lou Cruz. Broussard had been arrested at his home Friday morning in the 1000 block of 59th Street in Oakland, where police recovered the shotgun that they believe was used to kill Bailey the day before.

    Police said Broussard had found out where Bailey lived and before the killing Friday morning had gone to the newspaper’s office to see if he was there. When he found that Bailey had not arrived at work yet, he began driving around in a van looking for him and spotted him in the 200 block of 14th Street, where he confronted him and shot him several times with the shotgun.

    Expended shotgun shells found at the scene were matched to the shotgun recovered at Broussard’s residence, police said. Broussard had worked at the bakery as a handyman and occasional cook for eight months before leaving in March to find other employment. But when he could not find a job he returned to the bakery about a month ago and was given a post again, police said.

    Broussard is currently on probation for a San Francisco robbery. He is scheduled to be booked on suspicion of murder today.

    Six other people who were arrested in a raid at the bakery Friday morning were still being interviewed late Friday night, but no one else was expected to be booked on murder charges.

    Those arrested included Yusuf Bey IV, the son of the Black Muslim Bakery founders.

    Those in custody Friday were arrested in past assaults, gun attacks and a kidnapping. Two others are still being sought by police…

    Six other people who were arrested in a raid at the bakery Friday morning were still being interviewed late Friday night, but no one else was expected to be booked on murder charges.

    Those arrested included Yusuf Bey IV, the son of the Black Muslim Bakery founders.

    Those in custody Friday were arrested in past assaults, gun attacks and a kidnapping. Two others are still being sought by police.

    They have not been formally arrested in connection with any killings, including the slaying of Bailey, but homicide Lt. Ersie Joyner III said police believe they have the people responsible for Bailey’s death in custody…

    Late Black Muslim patriarch Yusuf Bey founded the bakery four decades ago. He built the organization on ideals of black empowerment, respect and self-reliance. In recent years, the group has been tied to murders, racism, sexual assaults on young girls and vandalism…

    The Nation of Islam, a national organization for black Muslims, is not affiliated with the bakery, said Oakland Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan.

    For two months, police had been looking into the bakery at 5832 San Pablo Ave. and its connection to separate incidents of violence, including a number of killings, shootings, robberies and a kidnapping…

    During Friday’s predawn raid of the North Oakland bakery, more than 200 heavily armed police officers seized weapons from inside, spent ammunition from the rooftop and detained 19 people for questioning…

    During the bakery raid, authorities also uncovered conditions so unsanitary that the Alameda County Health Department has closed down the eatery.

    Police found filth and waste — including dead rats on the roof and rat droppings in the bakery — they believe were leaking into drainage lines, prompting them to call in Vector Control, the city’s code compliance unit, the state Department of Fish and Game and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office environmental crimes unit, said Lt. Paul Berlin. Fines for such violations can be up to $5,000 a day.

    Police said they had probable cause arrest warrants for several men with ties to the organization but were still trying to determine if they were among those detained. Police said some of those detained had arrest warrants from other police agencies and parole violations.

    Police would not give specific details about the cases they believe are linked to the people associated with the bakery, but did say some were committed last year and earlier this year.

    Two of the incidents are believed to be the predawn shooting deaths of two men last month within a few blocks of the bakery.

    On July 8, Odell Roberson Jr., 31, was shot to death in the 1000 block of 60th Street. Police suspected the homicides of Roberson and Wills were connected because of the circumstances and similarities of weapons used.

    At least one case possibly linked to the bakery involves the kidnapping several weeks ago of some women for whom a ransom was demanded before they were able to escape, sources said. One of the shootings possibly resulted from a love triangle, sources said.

    Jordan said the warrants were obtained so that police could seek evidence needed “to further our investigations into these different crimes.”

    “(The men named in the warrants) are very violent individuals who need to be in custody,” he said…

    Bailey wrote about Your Black Muslim Bakery and founder Yusuf Bey for the Tribune when Bey faced prosecution for a number of charges stemming from an original allegation that he fathered the child of a 13-year-old girl...

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  4. AmericanIPA
    August 4th, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    What can you say besides terrorism works? Mulsims get whatever they want because people are afraid of retribution, whether it’s bad publicity for being “racists” or straight out violence.

    Meanwhile, jews and christians can’t even get positive media coverage. It’s a double standard so obvious no one can see it.

  5. Helena
    August 7th, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    Christopher Hitchens has weighed in on the “Your Black Muslim Bakery” mess at Slate. His main point: What took the Oakland police so long to raid these thugs?

    http://tinyurl.com/yslvvm


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