OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 7, 2007
Cops: Confession In Oakland Editor Murder
Police Say Teen Handyman Admits Shooting Journalist Investigating Black Muslim Group
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DeVaughndre Broussard, a suspect in the murder of Oakland Post Editor Chaucey Bailey, is seen in this photo provided by The Oakland Police Department. (AP/Oakland Police Department)
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A memorial is set up Friday, Aug. 3, 2007, on the Oakland, Calif., sidewalk where journalist Chauncey Bailey was slain. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Police investigate the scene where Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was shot to death on Aug. 2, 2007. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle)
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Devaughndre Broussard, 19, was one of seven people arrested in Friday's raids on Your Black Muslim Bakery and nearby houses. He is expected to be charged this week in the death of Chauncey Bailey, an Oakland Post editor, Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan said.
The raids on the bakery organization, founded nearly 40 years ago with a mission to empower Oakland's poor, capped off a yearlong investigation into an alleged series of violent crimes police said were connected to the group.
Authorities had no information about an attorney for Broussard.
The group's 21-year-old chief executive officer, Yusuf Bey IV, son of the bakery's founder, also was arrested and held on a 2006 assault warrant accusing him of striking a bouncer with his BMW after being thrown out of a San Francisco strip club.
Charges are pending against him in a 2005 case in which he is accused of leading a Black Muslim group caught by surveillance cameras in November 2005 smashing up two Oakland corner stores. The men berated the stores' Muslim owners for selling alcohol to the black community even though alcohol is forbidden by Islam.
Bailey, 57, was a longtime reporter for the Oakland Tribune before becoming editor of the Post, a weekly newspaper geared toward the San Francisco Bay Area black community, earlier this year.
Witnesses said he was ambushed Thursday morning in downtown Oakland by a man wearing a mask who shot Bailey multiple times and then fled.
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- Grimloxz, "EXCELLENT POST" and there are a lot of Pharisees posting religious posturing.
I%u2019m also no fan of Islam, but neither any other religious fundamentalist organization, so-called Christianity%u2026 - Reply to this comment
- Hmm... A black man is a suspect. Go figure.
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- Oh please, Christianity has been a seat of debauchery and savagery within Europe and after it was exported to the rest of the world for millennia.
Have we just forgotten 1700 years of history here?
Please. I'm no fan of Islam either (Christianity's cousin), but all the religous chest thumping is laughable.
As if this crime can be used as proof of the rightness of someone else's religous bent.
Way to go Pharasiess... - Reply to this comment
- This is typical for Islamics, nothing new. It is a sham religion sent to us by the devil to entrap the ignorant and those prone to violience. Wine, women, drugs etc., etc. business as usual in the Islamic community.
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- And Islam is a religion of peace. Right.
Posted by akarpov1 at 10:39 AM : Aug 07, 2007
they don't seem to be very tolerant either...but
they do like strip bars and BMW's....
Posted by theUSA1st at 11:32 AM : Aug 07, 2007
And a Christian man has never been in a strip club or killed someone. Come on get real. I can not and will not make an excuse for these people but don't act like you've never seen this kind of behavior before. They say that they are Muslim but don't practice its tenets. I'm pretty sure Mohammed would take a pretty dim view of going out and getting lap dances, just as Jesus would. - Reply to this comment
- This murderer is over 18, why the news media calls these type of adults 'teens' is beyond me.
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- Just one more example of how a religious cause or ideology can be exploited by self serving soicopaths. It provides the foundation and recognition which which extracts the following that then funds and supports unknowingly in most cases the hidden agenda.
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- Good points by the other readers. But now I'm confused. I'll give them the BMWs, but how do you reconcile: (1) strip clubs; (2) female circumsicion; (3) burqas; and (4) no booze. Imagine a bar where the women wear burqas and no alcohol is served. They'd be open for a matter of minutes. This, of course, sets aside the whole (arguably central) issue of homicidal intolerance. Just ask Theo Van Gogh...
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- And Islam is a religion of peace. Right.
Posted by akarpov1 at 10:39 AM : Aug 07, 2007
they don't seem to be very tolerant either...but
they do like strip bars and BMW's.... - Reply to this comment
- And Islam is a religion of peace. Right.
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