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.

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[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...