New piece of Bailey slaying puzzle surfaces

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 7, 2008 | Jaxon Van Derbeken

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The leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery expressed satisfaction on the morning Chauncey Bailey was killed, saying the journalist got what he deserved for taking on the troubled organization in his reporting, a bakery member told Oakland police in a recently discovered account given the day after the slaying.

Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV summoned the woman to watch a TV news story about three hours after Bailey, 57, was gunned down on his way to work on Aug. 2, 2007, she told homicide investigators. As they watched the report on the Oakland Post editor's slaying, Bey told her, "That will teach 'em to f- with me," she said.

The woman worked at the bakery headquarters on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland and stayed in Bey's room there the night before Bailey was killed, she said. The Chronicle obtained a tape of her account and police notes of her interview, but is not naming her at the request of authorities who say her safety could be threatened.

The woman's statement came to the attention of the Alameda County district attorney only within the past two months, authorities said - mysteriously, in the file of a separate criminal investigation into the bakery. The lead police investigator into Bailey's killing, who has long been a friend of Bey's, did not mention it in his official account of the probe.

The belated discovery adds to questions already surrounding the police investigation into Bailey's death. The state attorney general, the district attorney and Oakland police internal affairs investigators have all launched probes into whether the Bailey case was handled appropriately.

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Oakland Pride

[Sherman Logan]

The lead police investigator into Bailey's killing, who has long been a friend of Bey's... The state attorney general, the district attorney and Oakland police internal affairs investigators have all launched probes into whether the Bailey case was handled appropriately.

Uhh. I think I can answer the question just from the two sentences above.

[Alia]

No kidddddding!

From article: The Chronicle has reported that Longmire, a 23-year veteran of the department, had a long-standing friendship with Bey. He was the investigator who put the bakery leader and Broussard in a room together shortly before Broussard confessed.

Aha! This "putting them in the room together" is what thoroughly undermined Oakland PD, at the time. Oakland PD was having to put out brushfires like there was no tomorrow.