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The death of yet another Black man in the West Hollywood home of
LGBTQ activist and prominent Democratic donor Ed Buck is on the
hands of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and District
Attorney because it didn’t have to happen. Ed Buck should have
been behind bars for the death of the first man who died in his
house of an overdose.

In July 2017, 26-year-old Gemmel Moore died of a crystal meth
overdose in Ed Buck’s apartment. Moore was Black, gay, homeless
and sometimes worked as a sex worker — so of course the police
immediately deemed it an open and shut case of an accidental
overdose.

But after Moore’s personal journal was published and other young
men stepped forward recounting similar stories about Ed Buck.
They've said he has a Tuskegee Experiment-like fetish which
includes shooting drugs into young Black men who he picks up off
the street or via dating hookup websites. Their warnings forced
the sheriff’s department to finally open a homicide
investigation.

You’d think this was the plot to the sequel of Jordan Peele’s
film Get Out if it wasn’t true.
In his journal, Moore wrote, “I honestly don’t know what to do.
I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that,” a
December 2016 entry reads. “Ed Buck is the one to thank. He gave
me my first injection of crystal meth it was very painful, but
after all the troubles, I became addicted to the pain and
fetish/fantasy.”

“My life is at an alltime [sic] high right now & I mean that
from all ways. I ended up back at Buck [sic] house again and got
munipulated [sic] into slamming again. I even went to the point
where I was forced to doing 4 within a 2day [sic] period. This
man is crazy and its [sic] sad. Will I ever get help?”

His last entry, dated December 3, 2016, reads: “If it didn’t
hurt so bad, I’d kill myself but I’ll let Ed Buck do it for now.”

A coroner’s report described that there were, “24 syringes with
brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn
marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear
plastic bags with white powdery residue and a clear plastic bag
with a ‘piece of crystal-like substance,” on the night that
Moore died.

Buck has since been accused by numerous young Black gay men of
being a sexual predator, kidnapping, forced drug use, injecting
them while unconscious with crystal meth, filing false police
reports to cover his crimes, coercion, and pimping and pandering
by multiple victims.

For two years we worked to bring forth witness after witness who
told authorities about Ed Buck and how he uses the internet to
stalk and prey on young, Black gay men who are usually homeless,
HIV-positive, and often work as male escorts.

No one listened to them.

We repeatedly told the Sheriff’s Department and the District
Attorney’s office that if Buck wasn’t stopped, that another man
was going to end up dead in his apartment. Now, in the light of
another death in Buck's apartment, a lieutenant finally told
reporters the deaths are "suspicious."

Regrettably, six months later almost to the day and just days
before what would have been Gemmel Moore’s 28th birthday,
another body of a Black man has been removed from Buck’s
apartment under equally suspicious circumstances.

And just like in 2017, Buck has not been detained, arrested or
has criminal charges filed against him opening up the
possibility that there could be a third dead body in the near
future.

Had Buck been arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced for Moore's
death, chances are he would not have been around for anyone else
to “die” in his apartment.

Dr. Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson) and Cathy Smith (John
Belushi) are proof that there’s a precedent in fairly similar
circumstances.

The exploitation and manipulation of vulnerable young Black gay,
bisexual, trans, and queer men who are largely seen as
expendable by privileged, white male predators must stop.

And while the white LGBTQ+ community was quick to come for Kevin
Hart’s Oscar hosting job over his past homophobic comments, the
reaction hasn’t been the same in condemning one of their own and
his dead Black body problem.

As a Black woman, I know that if the roles were reversed, Gemmel
Moore would not have benefited from the color of his skin, his
years of political donations and relationships with politicians.
His word on what happened would not have been enough for the
police. Gemmel or any other Black man who had a dead white man
who overdosed on drugs in his apartment would have been met
with: do not pass go, do not collect $200, go straight to jail.

Criminal justice reform isn’t only about police killing unarmed
Black men and women. It’s about changing an entire system that
doesn’t value the lives of Blacks whether we’re the suspect or
the victim.

Arrest Ed Buck. Prosecute Ed Buck. Let a jury convict Ed Buck.

JASMYNE CANNICK is a political strategist and journalist.
Follow her on Twitter @Jasmyne and Facebook @JasmyneCannick.

https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2019/1/09/ed-buck-death-west- hollywood-jasmyne-cannick

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