OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Police conducted a series of raids early Friday, including one on a bakery that was the subject of coverage by a journalist slain in a brazen shooting a day earlier.

Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said 19 people were detained in the predawn raids on Your Black Muslim Bakery and three other locations.

He called the raids part of a yearlong investigation into violent crimes including murder, robbery and kidnapping, but would not say whether they were related to the shooting of journalist Chauncey Bailey on Thursday near the Alameda County courthouse in downtown Oakland.

Jordan did not identify the other locations that were raided.

Bailey was a longtime reporter for the Oakland Tribune and editor of the Oakland Post, a weekly newspaper geared toward the Bay Area black community. He had been researching an investigative piece about Your Black Muslim Bakery, Post publisher Paul Cobb told KTVU-TV.

The late Yusuf Bey founded Your Black Muslim Bakery in 1968 as a haven for struggling families. It sells natural baked goods alongside books by Malcolm X and other black leaders.

Bey’s reputation took a hit when he was charged with rape. Most of those charges were dropped, and one was pending when he died in 2003.

More recently, police said Bey’s son and other men had smashed liquor bottles in corner stores and berated the Muslim owners for selling alcohol to the black community.

Bailey covered the rape allegations and the vandalism, which led to charges against Bey’s son and the other men.

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