Posted on 08/26/2011 3:16:49 PM PDT by SmithL
More than four years after journalist Chauncey Bailey was gunned down in broad daylight on a downtown Oakland street, the man who ordered him and two others killed was sentenced today to prison for the rest of his life - but not before he proclaimed his intention to find the real mastermind of the slayings.
Yusuf Bey IV, 25, denied that he had ordered the killings and, in a statement read by his attorney, said, "I will not rest until I find those who are truly responsible for setting this operation up."
Bey's sentencing was a final act of sorts for the black empowerment group his father formed in Oakland in the 1960s, Your Black Muslim Bakery. At its height, the group aspired to promote healthful dietary habits in the African American community and recruit local blacks, mostly men, for positions of responsibility.
By the time he died of cancer in 2003, however, bakery founder Yusuf Bey Sr. was fighting off charges that he had preyed sexually on young girls. A pattern of thuggery marked the subsequent power struggle won by Bey IV, who a jury concluded had ordered Bailey's killing to silence his reporting on the bakery's unraveling.
The sentencing came as some measure of justice for the family of Bailey, a 57-year-old veteran of East Bay journalism who began writing for the Oakland Post in 2005 and was delving into the bakery's infighting and financial turmoil before he was killed.
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You mean like OJ?
Yeah, Like OJ, but I think this one will have a lifetime of rest before he finds the “real killer”
So, is OJ making any progress? How many tips have come in and been investigated?
He’s still batting ZERO!
The Beys are a prison gang, so no surprise.
GRRRRRRREAT news! Thanks for posting, SmithL.
Yusuf Bey IV:
It wasn’t me, Your Honor. It was the one-armed man./s
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