California mayor wants reporter’s death re-investigated

. Oakland Mayor Ronald Dellums said Monday he will ask for an outside investigation by either the state or federal Justice Department into city homicide Detective Sgt. Derwin Longmire’s handling of journalist Chauncey Bailey’s 2007 murder, the Chauncey Bailey Project reported early Tuesday. The lead detective assigned to investigate journalist Chauncey Bailey’s killing ignored evidence linking Yusuf Bey IV, former leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery, to a role in the killing and interfered in two other unrelated felony cases involving Bey IV, according to an investigation by the Project’s Thomas Peele, Bob Butler and Mary Fricker. The Chauncey Bailey Project is a joint venture between the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and more than 20 other news organizations that came together to complete the work of Bailey, an Oakland editor and writer who was gunned down in August 2007. The Bailey Project’s reporting has led to a police internal affairs investigation of that detective, Sgt. Derwin Longmire, and whether his close relationship with Bey IV may have compromised the case, according to InsideBayArea.com. Law enforcement officials said the investigation of the Bailey killing is in crisis. If Longmire is charged with administrative or criminal wrongdoing, the chances of convicting the one person charged, Devaughndre Broussard, might be jeopardized.

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