Bey IV speeches a month before Bailey killed

One month before the slaying of a journalist who was investigating Your Black Muslim Bakery, the bakery's young leader urged his followers to be "strong soldiers" and combat the many enemies he said were conspiring to bring down the embattled Oakland institution. "We fight the government, we fight the police, we fight our own families, we fight our own people, and we fight Caucasian people daily - just to do right," Yusuf Bey IV declared in a fiery videotaped sermon obtained recently by The Chronicle. "They use our own people to go against us - people like you or I - to go against a strong organization like Your Black Muslim Bakery," he also said. "It's going to take strong men to stand up, it's going to take strong soldiers to stand up and do something for ourselves." The sermon, delivered sometime in July, presaged the Aug. 2 street corner shooting death of Chauncey Bailey, editor of an African American community newspaper, who had been working on a story about infighting and financial problems at the bakery. Arrested on unrelated kidnapping and torture charges after Bailey's death, Bey IV denied complicity in the journalist's murder. But police quoted Bey IV as saying Bailey had slandered his late father, bakery founder Yusuf Bey, who died in 2003. Meanwhile, the bakery handyman who confessed to the slaying, Devaughndre Brouassard, 19, told police he had killed the journalist to be a "strong soldier," according to an investigator's notes - the same words Bey IV used in the sermon. Broussard later recanted and is awaiting trial. A video recording of another Bey IV sermon from 2007 also provides insights into the bakery's close relationship with former Oakland Police Chief Joseph Samuels, now a federal airport official in Florida. Bey IV declared that Samuels had "told all his officers: Leave Your Black Muslim Bakery alone, they're brothers." SOURCE OF THIS STORY