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Article: Why no tape of Bey-Broussard talk?

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February 28, 2008
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WHY DID Oakland police put Chauncey Bailey's accused killer Devaughndre Broussard alone in an interrogation room with Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusef Bey IV -- supposedly so Bey IV would convince Broussard to admit that he shot the journalist -- then not tape the conversation between the two?

When, at the time, police suspected that Bey IV had ordered the killing to prevent Bailey from writing an article exposing the bakery's financial problems?

Police produced a tape recorder a short while later to record Broussard's actual confession.

Didn't it occur to anyone that in such a high-profile case, it would be wise to cover all of the bases? That investigators were leaving the door ...

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