Who killed Chauncey Bailey? - OpEd - Response

Who killed Chauncey Bailey? - OpEd

Thank you for this great article. I too don't understand what's up with the Chauncey Bailey Project other than promote the party line and request money in the name of a dead reporter. Does Little Chauncey get any of that money? What about anti-violence programs or computer training centers in Oakland? Are they teaching others how to report?

"Why has not the Chauncey Bailey Project focused on the second reason Chauncey was killed?"
This "solved" murder makes no sense. Like 9/11, they are both government inside jobs.

Tell us more about the police story he was working on. Chauncey's computer was stolen out of the back of a family car after the funeral. "Finding" the gun even though the shooter reportedly left the scene speaks volumes to me.

Most of the focus on Chauncey is about his death, rather than the brilliant collection of his work, insight and leadership.

Even the 60 Minutes piece was a horror.

I pray your article on next year's anniversary is about how the mystery was solved and the people of Oakland were allowed to live in truth, peace and freedom.

We are overcoming now.

Chauncey Bailey Questions Knawing At My Soul

Chauncey Bailey did his best to let folks know what's really going on.

At the time of his murder, Chauncey was also working on a story about police corruption in Oakland according to his editor.

"Oakland Post Publisher Paul Cobb has said Bailey was investigating the bakery's bankruptcy and other financial doings as well as stories about police corruption. Cobb has denied telling police - as a detective's notes indicate - that Bailey was probing the bakery's role in "murders and other felonious activity." (Source has taken the original article down by 11/10/07 or available for cost originally posted: insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_7139746)

Witnesses report that the killer fled the scene, not ran into the bakery after the shooting to hide the gun. The police raid justification was 'they just happened to be going in the bakery in a pre-scheduled raid' and "found" the gun.'

The day after Chauncey's family cleaned out his apartment, a family member reported that his computer was stolen out of the back of an old car they had it in overnight.

I confess I'm jaded.

I thought Gary Webb and Hunter Thompson were as bad as it could get.

The whole truth is not in yet.

If the gun was found in the bakery, why did the shooter have to leave, only to return and hide the gun close to where the murder happened?

When did he/gun return to be "found" the next day by a pre-scheduled raid?

Did anyone put the janitor up to killing the reporter, if it was him who did it?

What was in the police story about corruption that Chauncey was working on at the time of his murder?

Without his home computer, will the publisher reveal what's in the newsroom computer, Chauncey's last stories.

Could the story that contributed to his murder be in there?

Inquiring minds need to know.

Chauncey Bailey on NAM

A great journalist was murdered on the streets of Oakland, CA. Nobody seems to know why, only that it was probably a hit. His name is Chauncey Bailey. He was my brother-in-law, my journalistic hero, and a man cut down in his prime.

As this interview demonstrates, there are people of great class and talent ignored by main stream media for decades while men without answers hog the attention of the money media.
Al Sharpton and Armstrong Williams are the men of my generation who got the mic on the news. The world did not appreciate him enough. A pearl of a man he was.

Chauncey fought for truth be it in Oakland or Detroit. If there was a truth to be told that would help the community he was serving, he got it out in a way folks could easily understand.

God knows Chauncey's work and has finally given Edward R. Murrow an equal in the realm of heaven. His work survives him and will be serving as a journalistic standard for decades to come.

"New America Media Executive Director Sandy Close said of Bailey, "Chauncey was a co-founder of New America Media and one of the best investigative journalists working bar none. He was brave in the face of whatever challenges he had to confront, especially any institution, public or private, that was not living up to the communities expectations and standards. He loved focusing on the local and global, he was adept at connecting the Bay Area Black community to the international African diaspora. He once said. "All of the ethnic media are like fingers on a hand. Only together will we be strong like a fist.' Chauncey Bailey was distinguished by his work in the Oakland Tribune, Oakland post, San Francisco Sun Reporter, San Franciscvo Bayview, Soul Beat TV and Our TV among others. He will be sorely missed.""

Like many in California and Michigan, we've been blessed by Chauncey's insight, and pray for greater glory for him. Lord know's he's earned it in this life based on the work he did including:

Genocide or Homicide? Black-On-Black Murders

Black Legislators: Drug War Has Failed

Black Wins & Losses in Election 2004

District Attorney Harris Snubbed Again

Poll Shows Most Blacks Still Oppose War

The Tobacco Industry and Blacks

GOD BLESS CHAUNCEY BAILEY. WELL DONE MY BROTHER. WELL DONE.