not mensa material thats for sure. LEAVE the gun, take the cannoli...
Posted on 08/03/2007 5:26:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Police said they recovered firearms linked to the slaying of an Oakland journalist during a series of early morning raids Friday targeting members of a Black Muslim splinter group that operates a chain of bakeries.
Colleagues said Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, 57, had been working on a story about Your Black Muslim Bakery before he was ambushed and slain Thursday morning near the Alameda County courthouse in downtown Oakland.
Before dawn, officers raided the Muslim group's headquarters at the original bakery on San Pablo Avenue, as well as three houses in Oakland. They arrested seven people on charges including homicide, robbery and assault, including the son of the group's founder, but it was unclear if any of those charges were tied to Bailey's slaying.
"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, who said the raids were part of a yearlong investigation into a variety of violent crimes.
Homicide detective Lt. Ersie Joyner said "scientific evidence" had linked the firearms to Bailey's killing.
Joseph Debro, an Oakland businessman who writes a column for the Post, said Bailey had recently asked him for information about Your Black Muslim Bakery's financial troubles for a story Bailey was writing.
"To him it was just another story," Debro said. "He wasn't apprehensive or anxious about it at all. He said he was working on a bunch of stories and this was one."
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 later dropped, although one was still pending when Bey died in 2003.
Bey's son, Yusuf Bey IV, who was in custody Friday, took over the original bakery and several franchises. In 2005, he was accused by police of being the ringleader in a group of black Muslims who smashed liquor bottles in Oakland corner stores and berated the Muslim owners for selling alcohol to the black community, because alcohol is forbidden by Islam.
Your Black Muslim bakery has been plagued with financial problems for several years, culminating in a bankruptcy filing last October.
In a declaration filed with the bankruptcy court on June 29, Yusuf Bey IV conceded he was "inexperienced in the business world," and had "received advice and consultation from those who had proven to me they did not have my best interests at heart."
Wow!
Religion of PEACE, Peace. Wow. How awesome.
not mensa material thats for sure. LEAVE the gun, take the cannoli...
Class, who is this man trying to blame without saying it?
Good! If they did recover the murder weapon those Muslims have got to have IQ’s in the single digits.
I had heard a shotgun was the weapon used in the murder, not sure more than one weapon was used, some of the others may also be traceable to other acts of violence.
If the murder rate in Oakland all of a sudden plummets, maybe other communities should also be eying their local “bakeries” and other businesses certain folks run.
A sharpshooter keeps watch atop Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, Calif., following a pre-dawn raid on Friday, Aug. 3, 2007. Police said they raided four locations this morning as part of a yearlong investigation into crimes including murder, robbery and kidnapping. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Everyone but hisself.
FR is mentioned about this over at the ant farm...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2939313
Louis Farrakhan called them “crooked industrialist bankers”....
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dang , now I got to disinfect my laptop. :-p
Noah Walker/Mercury News
Definitely shotgun, I saw the shell casings on the evening news. Both casings were the same green plastic, with brass base.
I’m not so sure the death rate will drop with all the drug dealings going on in that city, but I suppose it is possible to minimize exposure to that.
Their ‘business consultants’ must have been the ones to tell them to buy Hummers, and Expeditions, while the business was going bankrupt!
I'm guessing it'll be mostly crickets chirping on that thread now. Dumb crickets, at that.
A scan of recently posted articles on DU shows that someone has posted the follow story on this topic --- about the police raids being linked to the killing. A whopping ZERO posts so far, and it's been posted since 10:45am today!
the dummies at the ant farm seldom fail to entertain... 8^)
If you want some entertainment, do a search on daddy’s name. These guys have a four decade history in Oakland.
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