CA: Two more suspects arrested in liquor store vandalism

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[NormsRevenge]

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with attacks on two West Oakland liquor stores, police announced Thursday.

Yasir Hakeem Azzem, 19, and Kahlil Ali Raheem, 24, were arrested Wednesday for their alleged involvement in Nov. 23 attacks on the New York Market and San Pablo Liquor Store, authorities said. A group of about 11 black men dressed in dark suits and bow ties were seen smashing liquor bottles and toppling food racks while demanding that both stores stop selling alcohol to black people.

A plea hearing scheduled for Thursday in Alameda County Superior Court for two suspects arrested previously was postponed following word of the new arrests.

Yusuf Bey IV, 19 - the son of Yusef Bey, founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland - and Donald Eugene Cunningham, 73, are scheduled to enter pleas Jan. 12 to charges of felony hate crime, vandalism and false imprisonment, said Deputy District Attorney Casey Bates.

Lorna Brown, who represents Bey, and Kevin Taguchi, who represents Cunningham, said they asked for the plea hearing to be postponed so their cases can be consolidated with those of Azzem and Raheem.

Bey is free on $90,000 bail, and Cunningham is free on $140,000 bail.

[aynrandfreak]

Just remember, this has absolutely no connection to Nation of Islam. /sarc

[sageb1]

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

[msnimje]

Somebody needs to be tried for attempted assault or murder. The videos of this attack clearly shows one of these thugs throwing glass bottles at the store merchant.

[bobbyd]

Yasir Hakeem Azzem, 19, and Kahlil Ali Raheem, 24,

Damn, what happened to good ol American names....

Like...........

Norm!

[MJY1288]

It's time to lock up Louis Farrakhan and all of his lieutenants for the Terrorists they are

[happyathome]

Dang, who knew there was a French banlieu in the Bay area?

[de Buillion]

"Yusuf Bey IV, 19 - the son of Yusef Bey, founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland - and Donald Eugene Cunningham, 73, are scheduled to enter pleas Jan. 12 to charges of felony hate crime, vandalism and false imprisonment"

Whut is this? Black folks charged with hate crimes? Only White folks can be charged with hate crime, they is the majority! We are the MINORITY, and can't be charged with a White crime!

[Grampa Dave]

What a surprise: "Yasir Hakeem Azzem, 19, and Kahlil Ali Raheem, 24, were arrested Wednesday for their alleged involvement in Nov. 23 attacks on the New York Market and San Pablo Liquor Store."

Most of us out here on the West Coast suspected that some rowdy Scot/Irish hoodlums were responsible.

Turf wars are apparently breaking out between various Black Muslem factions/tribes/families in the East Bay Area.

[ZULU]

I hope the bow-tied b@$t@rd$ proove conclusively the Islamic connection with Calypso Louie.

[poetknowit]

Didn't they read Tookie's book?

[tkathy]

How black people can have anything to do with the religion that has been front and center in the slave trade is beyond me. Unbelievable.

[boulderite20]

Because Islam originally spread far into Africa?

[HighlyOpinionated]

"(I)f the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American . . . . There can be no divided allegiances here. Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag . . . . (W)e have room for but one language here, and that is the English language . . . and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
- Teddy Roosevelt, 1907

[Tijeras_Slim]

Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland

I guess they got tired of selling stuff at the airport.