Your Black Moslem Bakery is a bakery chain opened by Joseph Bey in 1968 in Santa Barbara, California, and moved to Oakland in 1971. A power broker at a local community center, held as a self-sufficiency model African American economy. However, it was later associated with widespread physical and sexual violence, intimidation, welfare fraud, and murder. After Bey's death in 2003, the bakery fell into debt and was declared bankrupt in October 2006. In August 2007, in connection with an investigation into the murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey and a number of other crimes, the police carried out a massive attack on the San Pablo company. Bread Avenue. Concurrent health inspections result in closure. Later on that day the court ordered a delayed reorganization to be changed into a bankruptcy bankruptcy.
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Origins
Joseph Bey came to Oakland from Texas with his family as a student in the early 1950s. He then opened a cosmetology beauty parlor in the area and in southern California, before entering the bakery business. After discovering the teachings of Elijah Muhammad in the 1960s, Bey converted to Islam to the Nation of Islam in 1964, and founded the "Islami" bakery in Santa Barbara in 1968. The group is not affiliated with the Nation of Islam, although the similarities are proved. Minister of the Nation of Islam Keith Muhammad, of East Oakland's Muhammad Mosque # 26, states that the two organizations are different and separate.
Baked goods sold by Bey are prepared in accordance with the Qur'an, and are free of refined sugar and preservatives. Some of the items sold do not match the diet books of Elijah Muhammad: How to Eat for Life , books one and two, as some items contain coconut, which, like other beans, is deemed unfit for human consumption by Elijah Muhammad. Bey named your Black Muslim Bakery business on the personal recommendation of his spiritual guide, the leader of the Nation of Islam Elijah Muhammad. In 1971, Bey moved the bakery to Oakland. In 1974, it was "the largest Bay Area bakery that specializes exclusively in natural food products", with over 6,000 breads and over 300 cakes per week sold in 150 stores.
In the mid-1980s Bey appeared regularly on the local Soul Beat cable television program, True Solution , where Bey broadcasts his sermon all hours every week. The Bey program also promotes bakeries, and often explains the need for economic self-sufficiency and African-American "self-knowledge" of self-knowledge, which he describes as "Original Man", a derived racial notion. of the Jacob's Nation of Islam doctrine.
During the 1990s the bakery and its leaders were part of a respected Oakland community, and had a major influence in local politics. They use their power to get help from the city, affect local elections, and avoid police surveillance.
In 2007 the company was headquartered at 5832 San Pablo Avenue, with five branch locations listed in the Alameda County record, including a store on Telegraph Avenue in the Oakland Temescal district, and another at Oakland International Airport. The bakery also has a location in the Oakland Coliseum.
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Yusuf Bey era controversy
Akbar Bey
In 1994, Bey's son Akbar Bey was shot four times and killed by a local drug dealer outside Omni's old nightclub near the corner of Shattuck Avenue and 50th Street. The court records show the pathologist's conclusion that Akbar Bey is high on heroin or morphine at the time of his death. An Oakland police lieutenant described Akbar Bey as a "little street thug" who had seen well and wore a bulletproof vest in a show of force to the police. Three months before his murder, Akbar Bey was accused of a crime by carrying a hidden weapon and evading police, resulting in the chase of cars and accidents on 44th Street and Market Street.
1994 Court of Nedir and Abaz Bey
On March 4, 1994, Nedir Bey was involved in the torture and beating of a Nigerian home salesman in an apartment on block 500 of 24th Street in Oakland, which involved a real estate deal. The apartment complex serves as a compound for the organization. A very violent incident also involved Abaz Bey. Abaz and Nedir Bey are both members of the African-American Advisory Committee, which also included then Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris. The committee has organized a massive conference on crime on the same weekend, featuring Jesse Jackson as the keynote speaker.
At the end of the incident, ninety Oakland Police officers were involved in hand-to-hand combat with thirty Black Muslims, some of whom had weapons. Two Beys and two other men were charged with felony, robbery, and false imprisonment. A year later, the four men begged no contest for a fake prison sentence. The prosecutors have broken the deal, in part because they can not get a tenant witness to speak from the apartment complex where the Bey organization puts its members as security, like a private complex. Nedir Bey underwent six months of house arrest, and Abaz Bey got eight months in house arrest.
1994 Bey mayoral run
Particularly through the lobby and arrangements made by Nedir Bey, which is the public face of Bey's organization, Joseph Bey cultivates the patronage of Oakland's civil, political, and religious leaders. He ran unsuccessfully to the mayor in 1994, earning 5% of the vote.
City Loans 1996
In 1996, Oakland City lent a $ 1.1 million company to start a home health care business. Loans are never paid, and home health care business is never established.
Yusuf Bey's rape court
Bey's critics - especially East Bay Express journalist Chris Thompson - accused him of cults, corruption, and antisemitism. Many allegations of physical and sexual abuse, including rape and incest, and backed by DNA evidence, were made against Bey, culminating in alleged crimes pending at the time of his death.
On September 19, 2002, Bey surrendered to Oakland Police when a warrant was issued for his arrest, alleged 27 allegations in the alleged rape of four girls under the age of 14. The cases are still awaiting trial the following year. The oldest accusation is that from twenty years earlier he was serialized raped by the coercion of a preteen girl who, at the age of ten, was under the care of Bey and his wife, Nora Bey. Bey died of cancer in October 2003 at the age of 67 years while the first case awaits trial.
Second generation controversy
Waajid Bey
After the death of Joseph Bey in 2003, Waajid Aliawaad ​​Bey became CEO of your Black Muslim Bakery. In March 2004, at the age of 51, he disappeared for several months, until he emerged as a murder victim with the discovery of his decaying body in a shallow grave on Skyline Blvd. in Oakland Hills.
Antar Bey
The bakery business was later taken over by the son of Joseph Bey, Antar Bey. At the age of 23 on October 25, 2005, Antar Bey was in turn shot to death in what police believed to be a failed car hijack when he was stopped to obtain gas at Martin Luther King Jr. Way, near 55th Street. On December 14, 2007, Alfonza Phillips III was sentenced to life imprisonment for his murder.
Another child, Joseph Bey IV, then took over the bakery business in October 2005.
Joseph Bey IV
In November 2005, two liquor stores in Oakland were damaged, one of whom was arrested at a store surveillance tape. Another store was set on fire, and a shopkeeper was kidnapped by a man dressed in a typical bow-tie suit attributed to the Nation of Islam. The men demanded that the shops stop selling alcohol to African Americans. The new bakery CEO, Yusuf Bey IV, was among those arrested in the case, and he was accused of leading the attack.
In February 2006 near Vallejo, California Yusuf Bey IV was arrested and later found guilty of numerous crimes related to his plan to buy a $ 55,000 Mercedes luxury from a Vallejo used car, using fake credit information and identification. He is also accused of trying to open a bank account with false information. Police Vallejo dropped the indictment of a 9mm gun and ammo found in the car.
In April 2006 Joseph Bey IV was arrested in San Francisco on suspicion of assault after allegedly trying to bring down three security guards outside his strip club in his BMW after he was expelled from the club. He was later accused of losing several trial dates, in which he became a fugitive with a $ 375,000 bail.
According to later court documents, Joseph Bey IV also used a stolen identification with a fake driver license to obtain favorable credit for buying a house at 2500 blocks of 61st Avenue. Bey signed all documents under the name Yasir Human. US $ 550,000 loan through CIT Group/Consumer Finance Inc.
Sayyed Yusuf Bey
Sayyed Joseph Bey "Weedy" is one of the older sons of Yusuf Bey. After graduating from Elijah Education Center in 1994, he joined his father's weekly television program True Solutions as a camera operator. Sayyed also works as a baker at your family bakery Black Muslim Bakery. In 1997 he had a small role in the movie Drylongso. He was photographed by the main character Pica. That year, he also moved to Los Angeles to pursue his passion for exotic cars and became owner of Quick N Shine Auto Detail and worked with Hollywood elites like the Wayans family. Sayyed is known for his grim tattoo tattoos and he is the owner of licensed weapons. On February 24, 2009 Sayyed took his own life and was found dead at his home by his sons mother on Burnside Ave. Because of the murder of his younger brother Joseph Bey who was delayed due to the death of Journalist Chauncey Bailey, the Bey family did not publish the news of death in Los Angeles.
2006 bankruptcy
On October 24, 2006, Your Black Bakery, Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing its CEO as Yusuf Ali Bey, otherwise known as Joseph Bey IV. With $ 900,000 in debt, mostly owed to mortgage holders, the building will be taken over. The remaining debt, $ 200,000, is owned by the Internal Revenue Service. The day after the assassination of Chauncey Bailey, on August 3, 2007, US Bankruptcy Judge Edward Jellen ordered that the case be converted to Chapter 7 effective liquidation of August 9, 2007.
Political fallout
It was revealed that three prominent local elected officials wrote a letter in July 2007 to Judge Jellen asking him not to dissolve the business to pay the creditor. US Representative Barbara Lee, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, and California Council Member Sandre Swanson all wrote letters at the request of old baker Ali Saleem Bey. Lee later expressed regret for his support. Dellums Office offered an explanation that Ali Saleem Bey said that he hopes to take over the bakery, and return it to its historical roots. Swanson's letter was dated July 17, 2007 and Swanson's first office acknowledged having "made a mistake", and also stated that Swanson was unaware of the baker's legal issues. But then his office stated that the letter was a routine response to routine requests as they received from small businesses, and that previous statements did not represent the official position of the board members.
But Elmhurst-East Oakland Board member Larry Reid said he rejected Bey's request to write a similar letter of support for the bakery in July, because the bakery failed to repay the loan in 1996, and due to its well-publicized publications. the criminal charges that had been filed against the bakery leader at the time, including the liquor store incident of 2005. Reid said he respected the old guard from the bakery represented by John Bey and Ali Saleem Bey, but that was not enough.
Health Code Violations 2006
On December 19, 2006, the San Pablo Avenue bakery headquarters received four "premier" health code violations, under unhealthy danger conditions, during a restaurant inspection by the Alameda County Environmental Health Department. Conditions are severe enough to risk immediate closure, if not promptly fixed, in accordance with departmental policies. However, the bakery remains open, and no further checks are recorded by the department. Major violations include problems with oil, lack of smooth and clean surfaces, lack of adequate ventilation ventilation, and inadequate lighting. In addition the inspectors cited four minor offenses involving employee behavior and cleanliness.
May 2007 kidnapped
Oakland Police said that three bakery-related men, including Yusuf Bey IV, later admitted that on May 17, 2007 they kidnapped two women, a mother and a daughter, and tortured her daughter. According to court records and official police statements, 20-year-old Joshua Bey and 21-year-old Tamon Oshun Halfin staked women at a bingo salon at Foothill Square in East Oakland. Halfin and Joshua Bey admit that Joseph Bey IV ordered them to be on the watch, and told him as the two women left. The men believed that both women and male friends had plenty of cash, which Beys and Halfin were trying to get for the bakery.
Joshua Bey and Halfin were driving a fake police car, with lights on, registered to Joseph Bey IV. The car attracts women over I-580. Wearing clothes and dark masks, the two men took the women at gunpoint to a fake police car. The third person is behind the wheel. The men covered the woman's head, and left, while the third man followed them, driving a woman's car. They ended up at a house on the 6800 block of Avenal Avenue, a few miles from the bingo hall. Police say that the bakery has a house as a rental. The mother was left in the car, and the girl was brought into the house, where she was tortured, beaten on her head and knees with a hard object, and subjected to other graphical threats including burning. An Oakland Police officer was in the area that night, looking for a stolen car. He sees a fake cop car instead, with the mother inside, and when he stops to investigate, the men run away from home. Her daughter broke the window of the house and asked for help, and the mother was later found by the police unharmed. The phone found in the house belonged to Joshua Bey.
Joshua Bey and Halfin were then among those arrested in a raid at a bakery. The police then arrested Yusuf Bey IV unsecured, for kidnapping for ransom in this case.
Double murder July 2007
The investigation and capture of later bread may also be linked to a double killing that occurred near the bakery several months after the May abduction. On July 8, 2007 a victim was killed in the 1000 block of 60th Street, and then on July 12, 2007 another victim, Mike Wills Jr., was shot dead at 6200 blocks of San Pablo Avenue. On August 6, 2007, police, without indictment, said that the two killings were carried out with an AK-47 found at the bakery during the August attack. Devaughndre Broussard said Antoine Mackey killed Wills because Wills was white, and Mackey and Bey were inspired by the racially motivated Zebra murder.
July 2007 kidnapped
Another case related to the prisoners in the baker attack was then involved again abduction on July 19, 2007 from several women for ransom, before they escaped from their kidnappers.
Chauncey Bailey's Assassination
Prior to the August 2007 death of the shootings, journalist Chauncey Bailey, editor of Oakland Post, was working on a story about your Black Bills finance, which involved his pending bankruptcy.
On August 6, 2007, a former employee of the bakery, Ali Saleem Bey, who was not a relative but who adopted Bey's name, revealed that he was the source of Bailey's story, which was
According to Ali Bey, the bakery business has been confiscated from his legitimate heirs in a coup by fraud and forgery, by a cruel and younger family branch, beginning with Antar Bey and culminating with current chief executive Yusef Bey IV. Ali revealed that in June 2005, John Bey, former head of Bey's security service, was expelled from the city with his family after his attempted life in a shooting outside his home. John has been trying to dismantle the scam behind the coup. In 2005, Antar Bey mortgaged a bakery property, to cover taxes and other debts, and then failed, leading to the threat of foreclosures.
On the morning of August 2, 2007, Bailey was murdered in Downtown Oakland. Devaughndre Broussard, a 19-year-old toolmaker at Your Black Muslim Bakery who is on probation for San Francisco robbery, has found Bailey's residence. Broussard had worked in a bakery as a handyman and cook between August 2006 and March 2007, before leaving for another job. He was rehired at the bakery around early July 2007.
Broussard then, with a white Ford Aerostar van, started driving around a route he thought would take Bailey to work. Broussard insisted that he acted alone, but the police believed he had an accomplice in the van. At 7:21, Broussard saw Bailey leave the McDonald's restaurant where Bailey regularly stopped for breakfast. Broussard got out of the van, parked on Alice Street. Wearing masks and dark clothes, he approached Bailey with a shotgun, shot him dead. Police said the gunman fired a shotgun into Bailey's chest, then stood over it and fired the execution style into Bailey's face as Bailey went down, and then fired a coup to make sure he died. Broussard then escaped in the van.
Broussard confessed to the police the next night that he then ambushed and killed Bailey. The Oakland Police investigators say that Broussard admits that he killed Bailey because he was upset over past and ongoing articles written by Bailey about his bakery and his personnel.
Bakery closing and confidence
The Alameda County Health Department closed the bakery after mouse droppings were found inside and dead rats were found on the roof, along with other wastes that leaked into drainage channels. As a result, police officers called the Oakland Vector Control during the raid, along with the state of California's Department of Fish and Game and environmental crime unit of the State Office of the Alameda Country District. Pending fines can reach up to $ 5,000 per day.
On August 4, 2007, Broussard was booked on suspicion of murder for Bailey's murder, after telling police detectives that he considered himself "a good soldier." Joseph Bey IV was also booked on that day, on an extraordinary San Francisco injunction, and was held unsecured in a ransom-for-ransom case in May. His brother, Joshua Bey, Tamon Halfin, and one of the other prisoners from the previous morning were arrested in connection with a previous abduction, including an attack on a woman in May.
On August 7, 2007, Broussard was indicted in the Alameda County High Court, accused of killing Bailey, and also accused of being a criminal possessing firearms and had previous criminal convictions from San Francisco. In August 2011, Broussard was sentenced to 25 years in state prison.
On June 11, 2011, Joseph Bey IV was convicted on three counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. In 2015, the state appeals court upholds the beliefs of Joseph Bey IV and Antoine Mackey.
See also
- Joseph Bey
- Chauncey Bailey
References
External links
- Black Muslim Bakery You, the last available version of the archive.org
- Joseph Bey Obituary at San Francisco Chronicle , October 2, 2003
- Blood & amp; Money: Endgame - comment on East Bay Express , October 8, 2003
- Two people arrested in case of liquor store vandalism - San Francisco Chronicle , November 29, 2005
- 7 Captured in the Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor - New York Times , August 4, 2007
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