Description: Investigating the Killing of a Journalist
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OAKLAND — Nearly four years after Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was gunned down on his morning walk to work, a jury convicted the former leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery of murder for ordering the journalist’s assassination. Yusuf Bey IV — who a prosecutor said terrorized Oakland — will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.
Special Investigations» Solemn Chauncey Bailey Project tradition continues ( 0 ) An investigative reporter was slain. What about his unfinished story? By Jeremy Barr The Washington Post February 3, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST When investigative reporter Jeff German was killed in September, his colleagues at the Las Vegas Review-Journal were determined that his stories would not die with him. They plunged into reporting on his […]
Sgt. Derwin Longmire, Oakland Police Department By Thomas Peele The Chauncey Bailey Project A state appellate court has upheld a lower court decision to throw out a discrimination lawsuit against the City of Oakland by a police officer who investigated the murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey in 2007. Sgt. Derwin Longmire had claimed he was […]