Secret Video Raises Questions About Bakery Leaders Role in Bailey Killing

The next day, bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV was arrested on other charges. He and two of his associates were placed in a San Leandro police department room, where they were secretly videotaped. This story is part of the Chauncey Bailey Project, a consortium of news organizations dedicated to continuing the reporting Bailey, editor of the Oakland Post, was pursuing when he was killed Aug. 2, 2007.

Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV kept the gun used to kill journalist Chauncey Bailey in his closet after the attack and bragged of playing hella dumb when investigators asked him about the shooting, according to a secretly recorded police video.

He describes Baileys shooting in detail on the video, then laughingly denies he was there, and boasts that his friendship with the cases lead detective protected him from charges.

Bey IV has not been arrested in Baileys Aug. 2 death; Devaughndre Broussard, a then-19-year-old bakery handyman, has been charged in the killing. In an interview last week at the Alameda County Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, where he is being held on unrelated kidnapping and torture charges, Bey IV, 22, denied any role in the killing.

The video and scores of other documents and police recordings obtained by the Chauncey Bailey Project raise questions about Bey IVs possible role in a conspiracy to kill Bailey, who was working on a story about the financially troubled bakery.

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