Muslim bakery raided in Oakland

LA Times:

Police conducted a series of raids early today, including one on a well-known Oakland bakery linked to a black Muslim group.

Oakland Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said the pre-dawn raids of Your Black Muslim Bakery and three other locations were part of a yearlong investigation into several violent crimes, including "murder, robbery and kidnapping." He did not identify the other three locations.

Jordan would not say whether the raids were related to the brazen daytime shooting death a day earlier of journalist Chauncey Bailey, who was gunned down near the Alameda County courthouse in downtown Oakland.

Nineteen people were detained, but Jordan refused to provide further details and scheduled a news conference for later in the day.

Bailey, editor of the Oakland Post and a longtime reporter for the Oakland Tribune, had written stories about the bakery. KCBS-AM reported today that Bailey had been researching a new investigative piece about Your Black Muslim Bakery.

Television stations reported that S.W.A.T team negotiators and various high-ranking police officials were at the bakery to oversee the operation.

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This is a developing story as they say. I suspect that the raid may have been triggered by the murder of the editor of a black weekly newspaper across the street from the court house. He was apparently investigating several stories at the time and the publisher was cooperating with the police by going over the stories under development.