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The Killing of a Journalist: Yusuf Bey raped and sodomized at leastfour young girls, including his own foster daughter. Officials with the county'sChild Protective Services knew all about it, but did nothing.
The Killing of a Journalist
Voice reporter Chris Thompson recalls a fallen colleague and his own days on the run by Chris Thompson August 7th, 2007 6:43 PM http://www.villagevoice.com/news/073...n,77457,2.html From the East Bay Express Archives: Remembering the Sinister Side of Yusuf Bey's Empire The Loofah and Falafel Revolution: Dems Fight Fox News This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow Anti-Gun Bloomberg Buys Ammo for Pro-NRA Bruno by Tom Robbins Cyclones put Brooklyn Hot Dog Markowitz on a Bobblehead Runnin' Scared by Keith Greenberg Police Dog Has His Day—In Court Runnin' Scared by Sean Gardiner Click Me, the Cybersex Gallery by Bonnie Ruberg How To Pick Up a Good Cybersex Partner Click Me by Bonnie Ruberg From the East Bay Express Archives: Remembering the Sinister Side of Yusuf Bey's Empire Alien Syndrome's Infection by Chris Ward The Loofah and Falafel Revolution: Dems Fight Fox News This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow The Frantic Rise and Fatal Fall of Hip-Hop Producer Disco D by Adam Matthews Five Enduring Mysteries About Conservatives This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow The Truth Behind Hairspray Lynn Yaeger by Lynn Yaeger Vintage Thrash is Back, And It's Speaking Spanish by Phil Freeman Eating Georgia -- The Country -- Via Sheepshead Bay Counter Culture by Robert Sietsema Last week, a man in a ski mask confronted Oakland, California, journalist Chauncey Bailey as he was walking to the downtown offices of the Oakland Post. The man raised a sawed-off shotgun and fired a round into Bailey's torso, then stood over him and fired a second round into his head. The next day, more than 200 police officers raided two homes and a bakery in North Oakland, tossing stun grenades through the windows before dawn. The bakery was the headquarters of the Yusuf Bey family, Oakland's most militant and allegedly violent black nationalist sect. Within hours, police say, a bakery employee confessed to murdering Bailey in retaliation for a series of stories he was preparing on the family's financial problems and alleged criminal history. The story made national headlines, in part because of the brazen murder of a reporter. This isn't the first time Chauncey Bailey had run afoul of the Bey family. A few years earlier, members of the sect threatened to kill him for running stories they didn't like. I know, because he told me so in 2002. I interviewed Bailey while conducting my own investigation into the Bey family's history of alleged violence and fraud for the East Bay Express. I soon got a taste of what he was talking about. For 30 years, Yusuf Bey and his followers built an empire of bakeries and security companies around the Bay Area, but an ominous air of menace and violence always surrounded them. In 2002, after family patriarch Yusuf Bey was arrested on charges that he raped a 13-year-old girl, my Express series reported that Bey family members had allegedly unleashed a wave of murder, rape, and fraud on Oakland, and the city's leaders praised them and gave them million-dollar loans in return. In one instance, Bey family members allegedly tortured a man for four hours, beating him with a police flashlight, burning his fingertips with hot knives, and trying to drown him in a toilet. For years, the Bey family allegedly beat and terrorized helpless black residents of low-income apartments they controlled, but the authorities never bothered to stop them. Yusuf Bey raped and sodomized at least four young girls, including his own foster daughter. Officials with the county's Child Protective Services knew all about it, but did nothing. The day after the last story ran, the payback started. A young man called and said he had more stories about Yusuf Bey's taste for rape. I told him I was moving onto other stories, but he wouldn't take no for an answer. He drove to the office and asked to see me, and I foolishly walked out to the lobby long enough for him to get a good look at my face. Feeling a little hinky about the strange grin he had on his face, I told my editor Steve Buel I was taking the day off, and he agreed to drive me home. While waiting for his car outside the office, I noticed a red minivan that looked out of place, but no one appeared to be behind the wheel. When I jumped in the car, the same man rose up from underneath the dashboard. He was trying to follow me home. Buel gunned the engine and trapped the car in place, told me to memorize the license-plate number, and swung back to the entrance. We jumped out and called the cops, and I spent the night at what you might call an undisclosed location. After that came the phone calls. "Mr. Thompson, I just want to say that your days are numbered," one man said. "You ****ed up for the last time, and your time is up." A woman called my voice mail, screamed obscenities, and advised, "Maybe you want to take a trip." Another woman simply said, "Hello, Satan," and hung up. Someone played one of Yusuf Bey's more inflammatory sermons into my phone. A few weeks later, another man growled, "We haven't forgot about you." Meanwhile, the Bey family was going through some changes. Yusuf Bey had died of complications from cancer, and his heirs—Yusuf had at least 42 children—started struggling for control of his business empire. In the spring of 2004, the badly decomposed body of Waajid Bey, the CEO of the family's security company, was found in a shallow grave in the Oakland hills. "It's not the death threats I mind," I joked with friends. "It's the credible death threats." Every week, I'd get the same creepy phone call. Someone would call me at precisely 5 p.m., when I would presumably leave work. As soon as I said hello, the caller hung up. I thought, "Are those ****ers staking out the routes I take home?" My colleagues (including Rob Harvilla, now the Voice's music editor) would drive me from work, using cars I hoped the Bey family wouldn't recognize. Finally, they took to staking out the lobby and following me when I left work—at least, they thought the guy they were following was me. Two goons fixated on an ad sales representative that bore a resemblance to me and chased him around town twice. On the second occasion, when they realized they had the wrong man, one of them pulled up to the car and said, "Where's Chris Thompson?" Whenever I talked to the Oakland police about my troubles, they all said the same thing: We hate those *******s, but there's nothing we can do until we pin something on them. Needless to say, I'd had enough and headed for the tall grass. I spent several months out in the countryside of Northern California, reporting and writing my Metro column from an old hunting lodge. At night, I drank and played liars' dice at a bar with old cowboys and race-car mechanics, and tried to figure out what to do with my life. Eventually, the goons got bored with hunting for me, and I slowly returned to the office full-time. Chauncey Bailey wasn't so lucky, but he fought the good fight against bad men. Despite the ongoing homicide epidemic, Oakland has slowly been emerging from its long, dark era of corruption, crime, ineptitude, and poverty. If city leaders manage to successfully prosecute the Bey family, they'll have cut a big tumor out of the city's heart. CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA WIRETAPPING PROGRAM.... CPS Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of Child Protective Services. every parent should read this .pdf from connecticut dcf watch... http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN) Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS *Perpetrators of Maltreatment* Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59 Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13 Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241 Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12 Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5 CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON... BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION... |
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