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.
Posted on 08/03/2007 11:21:06 PM PDT by 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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Thanks! I stand corrected...JFK
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.
Sound like anyone you know?
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
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...
“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.
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.
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.
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.
He must not have towed the party line and was considered an enemy of the nation (of Islam).
To me it kind of says it all when the best thing a city has to offer is it's the home of the Hells Angels MC.
(no offense meant against the Hells Angels MC and/or any member past, present and or future.)
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