Dellums Wants Brown To Investigate Police

Burris sues Police for Misconduct Again

By Post Staff

In the wake of news reports uncovering failures of the Oakland Police Department to fully investigate the killing of Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey, Mayor Ron Dellums is asking Attorney General Jerry Brown to conduct an independent probe of the department’s handling of the case.
“I have asked the California State Attorney General to conduct an independent investigation into the Oakland Police Department’s handling of the Chauncey Bailey murder investigation,” Dellums said in a news release Tuesday.
In addition, Dellums requested that a retired judge or expert in criminal investigations be assigned to participate in the process to “further enhance the objectivity of this investigation,” he said.
A series of news reports were published in the Oakland Tribune Saturday, Sunday and Monday, produced by a team of reporters called The Chauncey Bailey Project. In the series, the project reported that lead detective Derwin Longmire, had failed to document in his notes evidence that linked Yusuf Bey IV, leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery, to the slaying.
The evidence includes a tracking device that shows Bey IV stalked Bailey seven hours before the killing, According to the project, Longmire’s case notes do not document any analysis of Bey IV’s cell pone records, which were obtained with a warrant. They also show a series of calls within minutes of the killing. [Read more]

“A Day Late In Oakland”

“A Day Late in Oakland”, Zachary Stauffer’s  master’s film thesis produced over the past year at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, will have it’s world premier this week at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
It’s a half-hour documentary about the 2007 murder of Oakland Post  editor Chauncey Bailey and the evolution of Your Black Muslim Bakery, the organization implicated in Bailey’s killing.
The film is paired with a few other short documentaries by Bay Area filmmakers in a program called “The Home in My Heart.”
Here are the screening times:
Friday, Oct. 3, 9:00 pm at the San Rafael Film Center in San Rafael.
Saturday, Oct. 11, 4:15 at the Throckmorton Theater in Mill Valley. [Read more]

Trial Set for Bailey’s Killing

The murder trial of Chauncey Bailey’s alleged killer, Devaughndre Broussard, may start in February, according to an Alameda County Court Superior Judge.
“There’s more work to be done” before the trail can start, Judge Morris Jacobson said last Friday during  a brief hearing. He scheduled another hearing for Dec. 12, when he hoped a specific date could be set.
Broussard, now 20 years old,  was arrested Aug. 3, 2007 and pleaded not guilty in January. He is charged with shooting Bailey three times with a sawed-off shotgun on Aug. 2, 2007, as the editor walked to his job at the Oakland Post.

HIV/AIDS Center Opens September 22

Top left to right: Arnold Perkins, Oakland Public Safety Director, Kurt Zimmerman Principal of R.N.Field Construction, General Partner NCK LLC, David Kears, County Health Director, Peggy Bush, Executive Director, Vital Life Services and Assemblymember Sandre Swanson, Middle left to right: Brian Siebold, VP Mechanics Bank; Marcus Hibser, Pres. HY Architects; Kurt Zimmerman, John Micklos, Pres. PCI; Mike Hannigan, Pres. Give Something Back; Ralph Scott, Golden Gate Lock and Key; Jeff Lambertson, Pres. Gemini Air Systems; Roberto Uribe, Pres. R&R Home Improvement Products; Lee Vinney, Tile by Vinney, Bottom left: Nancy Zimmerman, Kurt Zimmerman, Feliciai Favroth, Next Level Real Estate the agent who sold the building, Bottom right: Father Jason Landeza and Father Jay Matthews. Photos by Gene Hazzard.

By Post Staff
Part 2

When Father Jay Matthews presented the Chauncey Bailey Vital Life Services awards to Peggy Bush and Kurt Zimmerman last Saturday for their volunteerism and leadership in converting the former Your Black Muslim Bakery into an HIV/AIDS center the 200 guests applauded and cheered the building’s amazing transformation.
He announced that the Vital Life Services Center would open September 22 to serve patients. Father Matthews, the former pastor and childhood friend to the late Chauncey Bailey said the Center was the type of program that Bailey loved to champion and support. Rev. Earl James Ward, pastor of the Star Bethel Baptist Church, which is adjacent to the Center, christened the center with prayer and well wishes from the neighborhood. He along with Father Landeza the pastor of St. Columbia Catholic Church, also a neighbor, urged the guests to support the Center with prayers, volunteers and financial donations. [Read more]

Vital Life Services Now Occupies Bakery Building

By Conway Jones and Post Staff
Part 1

The building that once served Oakland for 35 years as Your Black Muslim Bakery is now home to Vital Life Services a non-profit Center for those suffering from the HIV/AIDS disease.
The building will open for service to the community September 22 serving hot nourishing meals and baked bread from its new $250,000 kitchen.
Kurt Zimmerman, a founder of Vital Life Services and a building contractor, formed the NCK LLC to purchase the bakery at the trustee sale for $1,075,000. He then put more than one and a half times that amount into the renovation of the building.
The center also received donated labor, furniture and equipment from many individuals and businesses. While the Post staff toured the building last week, Mike Hannigan, the President of Give Something Back was unloading furniture and supplies while various craftsmen were completing the tile work to the exterior. [Read more]

Justice is Waiting for Chauncey Bailey

Standing on the spot where Chauncey Bailey was killed a year ago, some members of the Oakland Post and friends are shown among the four dozen visitors at the 10:00am morning Buddhist service led by John Le Tung. The staff are shown holding the copies of the plans for a Bailey Memorial in Vietnam. Others have copies of the Reporters Without Borders Petition calling for a federal investigation into the assassination of Bailey. Left to right, Stephen Fitch, advertising, Godfrey Lee, photographer, Paul Cobb, Publisher, Don Davis, developer who traveled to Vietnam with John Le and Bailey, John Le Tung, Jorge Portugal, El Mundo, Gay P. Cobb, Oakland PIC Director, Mitch Hardin, friend of Bailey and James “Jimmy Mack” McClendon, Director of the Original Passions, a group formerly managed by Bailey. During the day, two other observances were conducted.

Photo by Gene Hazzard.

Bailey Remembered One Year Later

Photos by Gene Hazzard and  Godfrey Lee.  Graphic design by Alapi Bhatt.

Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey was remembered by three separate ceremonies Saturday, August 2, at 14th and Alice Streets where he was gunned down on his way to work. During the first ceremony at 10:00am led by John Le Tung (above in the blue jacket), with a Buddhist prayer, incense with the gathering of Post staff, publishers Paul and Gay Cobb and many of the witnesses. [Read more]

Who Killed Bailey?

Opinion by Marvin X Jackmon

I write these words on the anniversary of the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. I am tired of the sham reporting of the Chauncey Bailey Project, a consortium of journalists and Bay Area newspapers that have made millions infecting the Bay Area and the world with misinformation and most importantly, committing the sin of omission by focusing on one of two reasons my friend and fellow writer was assassinated.
The Bailey incident reminds us of the killing of Malcolm X, a conspiracy between the Nation of Islam and the New York Police. What is even more striking in Bailey’s case is that he was not only doing a story on the Black Muslim Bakery, but was also writing an expose of black police on the OPD, similar to the “Riders” case in which white and Latino police were killing, shaking down and planting false evidence on mostly black victims.
Why has not the Chauncey Bailey Project focused on the second reason Chauncey was killed? No doubt it has been to poison the public against Muslims, as in the Malcolm X case. The media so poisoned the atmosphere that even today black intellectuals are guilty of revisionism when attempting to write Black history, often omitting or down playing the importance of Elijah Muhammad, who was our master psychologist and had a profound influence not only on Malcolm X, but Muhammad Ali, Farrakhan, Warithdin, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, in short, the Black Arts Movement, Black Studies, Black Psychology, theology and most importantly, economics. [Read more]

The Post Remembers Chauncey Bailey

On the morning of August 2, 2007, Oakland Post Editor Chauncey W. Bailey was gunned down on his way to work in downtown Oakland. Bailey, 57, was killed at the pinnacle of his long and distinguished journalistic career and since his death he has received numerous posthumous recognitions for his courageous investigations into political and community issues.

In the last year, journalists from around the world have written extensively about the case and the issues Bailey was investigating.

In the Bay Area, several organizations created The Chauncey Bailey Project, a collaboration between journalists, editors and media dedicated to completing Bailey’s unfinished body of work. The Post News Group would like to thank the numerous journalists, media organizations and community groups that have taken up the call to continue Bailey’s work and his fight for justice. Below is a collection of articles from the Oakland Post as well as coverage from around the world. [Read more]

US Attorney General Asked to Investigate Bailey Case

In an article posted on their website on Friday August 1, Reporters Without Borders, the international press freedom organization, expressed their dissapointment that 1 year after the death of Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey, more headway has not been made in the case.  The entire article can be read here.

The organization has also released a petition calling for the Attorney General of the United States to take up the case of and expedite the investigation.  Concerned citizens are asked to sing the petition, located on the Reporters Without Borders Website at www.rsf.org, or by following the link here.

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