...the group also took away a Mossberg shotgun a store owner had trained on them.
Using a store videotape, Oakland investigators soon identified Your Black Muslim Bakery members as responsible for the vandalisms and robbery.
But they decided not to seek a warrant to search the bakery's San Pablo Avenue headquarters for the gun.
"Looking at the totality of circumstances, I don't think we felt at the time that a vandalism and a weak stolen-gun case was enough to go smashing in the door."
Political correctness at it best. It was vandalism AND robbery, robbery of a Shotgun!
What's weak about a stolen-gun case when it was on video and the owner said "They took the gun?"
And why smash down the door of a business that is open every day?
Stupid excuses. If it was the White Muslin Textile Factory they would have gone in (broken down the door even if unlocked), shot a dog or two and gotten the shotgun.
“”Looking at the totality of circumstances, I don’t think we felt at the time that a vandalism and a weak stolen-gun case was enough to go smashing in the door.”
Yet we have no problem smashing your door and shooting you based on an anonymous drug tip phoned in by officers...