Black Muslim Group Suspected In Editor's Murder

Yusuf Bey is in custody and raids on locations linked to a well known Black Muslim group have yielded firearms suspected of being linked to the street murder of Chauncey Bailey. Bailey was the Editor of the Oakland Journal and was said to have been working on a story critical of the group. SWAT teams carried out the raids. See images here.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Firearms linked to the slaying of an Oakland journalist were seized during early morning raids Friday targeting members of a Black Muslim group that operates a chain of bakeries, police said.

"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," Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan said, adding 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.

Your Black Muslim Bakery is a business, now said to be bankrupt, that made news for terrorizing liquor store owners for selling liquor to the Black community in 2005.

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.

Your Black Muslim Bakery has been plagued with financial problems for several years, culminating in a bankruptcy filing last October.

Comments

[Don Surber]

Religion of piece.

A piece of you here, a piece of you there ...

[Purple Avenger]

Amateur morons. These people give hitmen a bad name.

They had over a day to make the weapon from the hit vanish. Pros would have cut the gun into very small pieces on a cutoff wheel and scattered them all over the west coast.

[nowingker]

These guys are notorious in Oakland as a criminal enterprise, but I am under the impression the 'bakery' is a front for drugs.

One can only wonder at the fact that a known nest of criminals has to carry out a hit on a local journalist in broad daylight before anything happens to them.

[bloodrage bob]

one *possible* reason the cops might have been hesitant to move on the black muslim bakery is the certainty of liberal reaction to such a move: "you're profiling them because they're black muslims!" "how dare you insinuate evil motives to the religion of peace!" "clear & obvious racism!" "islamophobia!"

many shining examples of this liberal tendency towards denying the obvious/attacking the messenger can be found right here in the comments section of this very blog.

[Purple Avenger]

All one needs to do is note who the mayor of Oakland is (Ron Dellums) and it becomes apparent why a known criminal enterprise was allowed to persist long enough to whack a journalist.

[southdakotaboy]

The only good thing that might come out of this tragedy is that the people of Oakland might wakeup to the threat that radical muslims is.