7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor

New York Times ^ | 08/03/2007 | JESSE McKINLEY

[AndrewWalden]

OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 3 — A day after a prominent newspaper editor was shot to death downtown, the police here on Friday arrested seven men and seized several weapons that they suspected were used in his killing and those of two other men.

Oakland police officials said they suspected that the men were part of a group operating “a very violent criminal enterprise” out of a neighborhood bakery.

The arrests came after a predawn raid by SWAT teams at the bakery, the Your Black Muslim Bakery, and three bakery-owned properties, where the police found several firearms, including the gun they believe was used to kill the editor, Chauncey Bailey, of the weekly Oakland Post.

Mr. Bailey, 57, was shot several times at close range on Thursday morning at a busy intersection near the Alameda County courthouse here. He had been working on an article for the newspaper about possible links between the bakery and several killings in the area, said Walter Riley, a lawyer for the newspaper’s publisher, Paul Cobb.

CONTINUE: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/us/04oakland.html?ei=5065&en=0324fe3463e9ed12&ex=1186804800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

[AndrewWalden]

Sorry, that’s “Editor”...

[vbmoneyspender]

On a scale of 1 to 10 for political incorrectness, I would say that headline ranks a googleplex for the NY Times.

[Chunga]

That’s not the original headline.

[counterpunch]

The New York Times is singling out Esditor-Americans for discrimination again.

[vbmoneyspender]

Should have known it was too good to be true.

[Proud2BAmerican]

Yeah, no way a newspaper would headline a story with the determination of guilt prior to a court’s ruling. Instant lawsuit.

[XR7]

On a scale of 1 to 10 for political incorrectness, I would say that headline ranks a googleplex for the NY Times.

Sorry. But the poster made up his own headline.
The actual NYT headline is: 7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor

[AndrewWalden]

That’s my headline: theirs was
“7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor”

which begs he question: 7 what? You have to get to paragraph 3 to find out they were Muslims. And it is that high in the article probably only because the victim was a journalist. If the victim were a cop, maybe para 10. And all the other victims...well the late Mr. Bailey apparently was digging into that. Check out all the other stuff this “Bakery” did in the name of the “Religion of Pieces” — oddly the Oakland PD never found reason to shut them down ... until now.

[Fred Nerks]

In late 2005, several members of the group that operates the bakery, including the younger Mr. Bey, were charged in an attack at a small neighborhood grocery store, in which liquor bottles were smashed and other merchandise was destroyed. The attack was treated as a felony hate crime, the police said, because the store, which is owned by Muslims, had sold goods forbidden by Islamic law.

The Commission for the Protection of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice come to Oakland. Wahabi-African-Americans.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1647239,00.html

[DoughtyOne]

That may be true, but there are times when the papers pull their first headline and replace it quickly. That may not have happened here though.

[BADROTOFINGER]

You shouldn’t change headlines. When people don’t see the original in a search, the article is usually reposted, wasting bandwidth.

[Lead Moderator]

To prevent duplication, please do not alter the title. Thanks.

[Wil H]

When people don’t see the original in a search, the article is usually reposted, wasting bandwidth.

It doesn't waste bandwidth, it wastes storage space.

[AndrewWalden]

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[Irish Rose]

It’s a story we’ve been hearing a lot lately - Muslims killing people.

[MississippiMan]

You have to get to paragraph 3 to find out they were Muslims.

And you wouldn't have found out at all if not for the bakery's name.

Political correctness will eventually cause mammoth loss of innocent American lives.

MM (in TX)

[LilAngel]

I’m late to the party. What was your headline? I’m betting it was more accurate.

[Canali]

http://www.ybmb.com/Lectures.htm



This won't be up much longer.

[singfreedom]

I found that extremely interesting, too. Did it take the death of this “editor” to finally “put these bad guys away”? I also found the police Lt. remark about their deportment being “disrespectful” to the neighborhood interesting, if not downright aberrant.

Is it just my imagination or is that genuinely one of the most noncommital, uninformative, headlines I’ve ever heard from the NYSlimes?

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

He had been working on an article for the newspaper about possible links between the bakery and several killings in the area,

Ya think that maybe he was on to something. Perhaps the police can now tie this together.

[Fred Nerks]

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: Rita Williams Reports On Black Muslim Bakery’s Direct Link To Various Acts Of Violence

http://www.ktvu.com/video/13819313/index.html

[AndrewWalden]

my headline was “Muslims Murder Oakland Editor”
(err Esditor, bad typing)

Here’s an item from the bakery website:
“Your Black Muslim Bakery serves as a vehicle for producing natural, revitalizing body and mind building foods, and also as a platform for raising the consciousness of his people transforming them into respectable and productive individuals.”

... or ‘de-vitalizing’ them if they do not comply.

[RoseyT]

Did you happen to copy any of it? All I see is a schedule. The “lectures” link on the site is dead.

[AndrewWalden]

Check out “Outlet #11” they had a location at the Oakland Intl Airport terminal http://www.ybmb.com/outlets.htm

and they also had a colon hydro therapy business (yecch)
http://www.ybmb.com/naturalhealing.htm

and they were on local TV...
http://www.ybmb.com/Lectures.htm

and they had a security business...
http://www.ybmb.com/security.htm
(Surprise, surprise, link broken)

and a bunch of hippie retailers to sell their bean pies
http://www.ybmb.com/Retailers.htm

[Junior_G]

I just sent my black muslim bakery a choice email congratulating them on their multiple arrests for murder.

[AndrewWalden]

and they’ve got a 365-day-a-year madrassah
http://www.ybmb.com/eec.html

[GOP Poet]

The bakery’s operators had been investigated by the police in the past. In 2002, the founder, Mr. Bey, was charged with rape, sodomy and lewd acts with a child under 14, stemming from accusations that he had fathered a child with a 13-year-old girl in 1982. Mr. Bey died of cancer in 2003 before his trial began.

In late 2005, several members of the group that operates the bakery, including the younger Mr. Bey, were charged in an attack at a small neighborhood grocery store, in which liquor bottles were smashed and other merchandise was destroyed. The attack was treated as a felony hate crime, the police said, because the store, which is owned by Muslims, had sold goods forbidden by Islamic law.

Lieutenant Joyner said that many residents of the neighborhood surrounding the bakery had been afraid of the Muslim group, whose members sometimes shot automatic rifles in the air in a show of intimidation. Other members of the group, the police said, flaunted their defiance of outstanding warrants on assault and gun charges.

Ah, yet again more examples of the religion of peace. ("Ho hum," as I continue filing my nails.)

God bless this journalist and his family.

[GladesGuru]

As of 4:20 am, it was gone.

[JennysCool]

Hmm ... Let’s see ... Persons affiliated with “Your Black Muslim Bakery” allegedly knock off a well-respected black journalist ... Not a lot of smarts on the menu there in the bakery, apparently.

[Global2010]

Now what if one named their business:

Your White Christian Fish Store.

Would certain groups whine?

[johnny7]

The attack was treated as a felony hate crime, the police said, because the store, which is owned by Muslims, had sold goods forbidden by Islamic law.

Good ol' ROP raising its pointy, horned head again...

[pleikumud]

The place should be bull-dozed. The headline shoud read: “Black Muslims Kill Newspaper Editor”. Half the violent crime in the U.S. is done by blacks, even though they represent about 12% of the population. The media “can’t handle” the facts.

[presently no screen name]

Wondering if the editor asked for protection due to his investigative stories and was declined due to PC? It seems the law knew immediately who to arrest.

[WKB]

You shouldn’t change headlines. When people don’t see the original in a search, the article is usually reposted, wasting bandwidth.

and when that happens, here comes the

[Blue Turtle]

will they be charged with a HATE CRIME?

[rabidralph]

I wonder if these are the same black muslims who went around smashing liquor store merchandise a few months back, maybe even from last year, I don’t remember the timeframe.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

How about this headline:”7 Muslims arrested for shooting an infidel newspaper editor”?

[Buffettfan]

Nowhere in ths article doe it mention anything about the “nation of islam”, but everybody know that’s who was involved in all of these crimes. Why is the NYT concealing the fact that NOI was involved? Why are they shielding them? Is it because Keith Ellison (Democrat Minnesota) was once a member of this radical black hate group? Hmmmmmmm

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I believe the owner of the bakery ran for mayor against Jerry Brown... I’m not sure, but I do remember something about it...

[BADROTOFINGER]

Thanks! I stand corrected...JFK

[Wacka]

The founder of this group ran for mayor. He also had rape charges pending when he died of cancer in 2003. His son was shot in broad daylight at a gas station before he died. His other son (I believe) is one of those arrested for smashing the booze bottles in the deli (which was all caught on tape).

On the news yesterday, most neighbors said they were intimidated by the group and were glad the police raided the place.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Haha. Look, its in the posting guidelines, and people should follow the rules. If people don’t know the rules, then they should be told. No whining, no crying, and claiming to be better than anyone else was involved. If anyone thinks they are better than anyone else on here, its probably the one casting aspersions on other someone elses motivations.

Sound like anyone you know?

[WKB]

Rules are rules I agree.
But I have been posting almost 9 years
and it has been my experience that the
FR search engine runs on 4 of 8 cylinders
about half the time. Plus I have seen many
times when the second thread will get more
replies and views than the first.
Sometimes people are in such a hurry to be first
they post without searching.
IMHO it can go either way

[CRBDeuce]

nothing new here...decades old jihad, nothing more:

[Yusef] “Bey died of colon cancer in October 2003 while awaiting trial on charges of raping a minor. A year earlier he had been charged with 27 counts in the alleged rapes of four girls under the age of 14. Prosecutors said they had DNA evidence to prove that Bey fathered five children with his victims, two of whom gave birth when they were 13. His followers have claimed he fathered more than 40 children.”

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/30/MNGDVG0B4L1.DTL

our condolences to his son, Akbar...

[Dudoight]

“By midafternoon, the bakery had been boarded up and closed by the city’s health department.”

Law enforcement drags its feet...and the health department steps in...a day late and a dollar short.

Should have done this much earlier as this bunch certainly proved lethal to Editor Bailey’s health.

[Clovis_Skeptic]

SWAT teams are out in force early Friday during one of several raids on the Your Black Muslim Bakery and nearby houses along San Pablo Avenue in Oakland.

[noamnasty]

Intimidated ? I think it is more like cowardly complacent . I get sick of hearing about the people ‘ allowing ‘ the take over of there towns, cities and even states. All we needed to do was meet them in our streets [PEACEFULLY] ,in our legislative meetings and in our media .

It’s not that hard, I’m an old lady and I do it !

We may no longer be under the queen, thanks to brave patriotic citizens of the past, but it seems we have accepted the domination of a self crowned king.

[weegee]

The NOI is the MMM which is the same as the KKK, a supremacist hate group. Only in the politically correct world are they granted any credibility and excuses for the vile things they say.

[weegee]

He must not have towed the party line and was considered an enemy of the nation (of Islam).