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Editor's Accused Killer Tells 60 Minutes He's Innocent

Posted: 4:35 pm PST February 22, 2008Updated: 4:42 pm PST February 22, 2008

The man accused of killing journalist Chauncey Bailey said in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that he will reveal who the real murderer is when his case goes to trial.

The interview with Devaughndre Broussard, scheduled to air on Sunday, is part of a bigger story the show is doing on Bailey, the former editor of the Oakland Post who was named this week as a posthumous recipient of the prestigious George Polk award for journalism.

Bailey was gunned down in August in broad daylight as he walked to his downtown office at the Oakland Post. Police believe he was working on a piece about the financially troubled Your Black Muslim Bakery, an organization founded in the 1960s to peddle healthy baked goods and help ex-criminals get their lives back together.

In the interview, Broussard repeats his claim that he was coerced into confessing to the Bailey shooting by Yusuf Bey IV, son of the bakery's founder.

"(Bey) was saying ... 'you got to take this fall.' He was saying, like, 'as your commanding officer, you got to follow orders,"' Broussard says in the 60 Minutes interview.

A former handyman at Your Black Muslim Bakery, Broussard recanted soon after he confessed. He has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.

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