The editor's notes below originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune.

Editors' note

This story contains language that does not normally appear in the Oakland Tribune and its sister papers in the Bay Area News Group -- East Bay.

But to remove certain words attributed to Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV from this story would lessen the impact of what he said on a secretly recorded video about the killing of journalist Chauncey Bailey when he apparently thought only two of his associates could hear him. Those things are far different from what he told police.

You can hear and see the video at oaklandtribune.com.

The sound on the video was enhanced at sound studio. We did that with our partners in the Chauncey Bailey Project so we could fully report what Bey IV and the others said about Bailey's killing.

-- Martin G. Reynolds, editor, The Oakland Tribune, 510-208-6433 or mreynolds@bayareanewsgroup.com

-- Robert J. Rosenthal, executive editor, The Chauncey Bailey Project

Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV kept the gun used to kill journalist Chauncey Bailey in his closet after the attack and bragged of playing "hella dumb" when investigators asked him about the shooting, according to a secretly recorded police video.

He describes Bailey's shooting in detail on the video, then laughingly denies he was there, and boasts that his friendship with the case's lead detective protected him from charges.

Bey IV has not been arrested in Bailey's Aug. 2 death; Devaughndre Broussard, a then-19-year-old bakery handyman, has been charged in the killing. In an interview last week at the Alameda County Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, where he is being held on unrelated kidnapping and torture charges, Bey IV, 22, denied any role in the killing.

The video and scores of other documents and police recordings obtained by the Chauncey Bailey Project raise questions about Bey IV's possible role in a conspiracy to kill Bailey, who was working on a story about the financially troubled bakery.

The videotape and documents incriminate Bey IV, said one expert who reviewed them.

"All of those things together make it a very powerful, compelling set of facts that Yusuf Bey was involved and that Yusuf Bey should be charged, at a minimum, as an accessory to murder," said Peter Keane, a veteran criminal lawyer and dean emeritus of Golden Gate University Law School.

Oakland police and prosecutors in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office refused requests for interviews. Police would not allow reporters to interview the case's lead detective, Sgt. Derwin Longmire.

"The investigation is still ongoing," Oakland police Assistant Chief Howard ...