Oakland
newspaper editor gunned down
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full article
Chauncey Bailey, one of the most respected black journalists in
America was shot dead on the street by a man dressed in black and
wearing a mask.
Bailey's murder has shocked the San Francisco Bay Area. It has also
rippled out into the rest of America as the country comes to grips with
the daylight murder of a senior newspaper editor.
The reason that Bailey was killed appears to lie with the secretive and
shadowy black Muslim sect in Oakland that Bailey was investigating. A
day after he died, a series of dramatic police raids unfolded across the
city, aimed at a group of Islamists centred on a business called Your
Black Muslim Bakery.
The bakery was the centrepiece of a business empire founded by Yusef Bey,
a black Muslim leader in Oakland whose followers preached a strict
message of Islam and black political power. Bey's followers have long
been the subject of intense police and media scrutiny for their alleged
use of strong-arm tactics in promoting their business interests and also
shutting down stores that sold alcohol. Bey was also stridently
anti-homosexual and awaited trial on 27 counts of sex crimes when he
died of cancer in 2003.
Bailey had written articles about Your Muslim Black Bakery and was
believed to be working on further investigations when he was killed. He
had recently been making enquiries in the black business community about
the bakery's finances. His colleagues also told police he had recently
received death threats because of his journalistic work.
The raids ended with seven arrests and the discovery of a cache of
weapons and ammunition. Police said initial findings had linked some of
the weapons to Bailey's case.
Earlier deaths have been associated with Your Black Muslim Bakery. In
1994, members of the group threatened to kill white police officers
investigating an alleged beating meted out to an Oakland resident. When
Bey died, his handpicked successor disappeared. His decomposed body was
found six months later. One of Bey's sons was shot and killed last
month.
Update: Confession
7th August
Devaughndre Broussard, a handyman and occasional cook at Your Black
Muslim Bakery in Oakland, confessed to local authorities that he shot
Bailey last Friday. According to the local press, Broussard said he
killed the editor because he was angered by Bailey’s negative coverage
of the bakery and its staff.
Update: Sentenced
1st September 2011. See article
from sfgate.com
More than four years after journalist Chauncey Bailey was gunned down
in broad daylight on a downtown Oakland street, the man who ordered him
and two others killed was sentenced Friday to prison for the rest of his
life - but not before he proclaimed his intention to find the real
mastermind of the slayings.
Yusuf Bey IV, 25, denied that he had ordered the killings and, in a
statement read by his attorney, said, I will not rest until I find
those who are truly responsible for setting this operation up.
Bey's sentencing was a final act of sorts for Your Black Muslim
Bakery, the black empowerment group his father formed in Oakland in the
1960s.
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