California: Inquiry Into Killing Is Urged.

Mayor Ron Dellums of Oakland said he had asked the state attorney general to investigate accusations about his police department's handling of the August 2007 killing of Chauncey Bailey, a prominent local journalist. Mr. Dellums's actions came after a series of articles by the Chauncey Bailey Project, a collective of investigative journalists, drew connections between an Oakland police detective and Yusef Bey IV, who is accused of running a criminal enterprise out of a Muslim bakery. One member of the bakery, Devaughndre Broussard, has been charged with murder in the death of Mr. Bailey, the editor of The Oakland Post. The paper, a weekly with an emphasis on black politics and culture, had been investigating the finances of the bakery. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]