• Black men, meth and two deadly cases: 5 things you should know about wh

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    This week the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department confirmed that
    the cause of death for the second man found dead in democratic
    donor Ed Buck’s home was a methamphetamine overdose.

    According to NBC News, Timothy Dean, 55, died on Jan. 7, making
    him the second person who was found dead in Buck’s West
    Hollywood apartment within two years. Another man, Gemmel Moore,
    26, died in Buck’s apartment in July 2017. L.A. County
    prosecutors declined to charge him in that case. But detectives
    are reportedly continuing their probes into the similarities of
    each incident.

    Still, so far Buck remains unindicted and no criminal charges
    have been handed down.

    Both deaths were ruled as accidental overdoses, but as
    protestors and the families of the two young men continue to
    speak out, people are starting to ask, “Who is Ed Buck?”

    Below are five things we’ve learned about him so far.

    READ MORE: Another Black Man is found dead in home of California
    Democratic donor Ed Buck

    He used to be a conservative Republican
    Buck is a former West Hollywood City Council candidate and a
    well-known figure in LGBT political circles in Southern
    California, known for being a vocal activist.

    Although he is often identified as a “Democratic donor” and has
    contributed to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, former
    California Gov. Jerry Brown, and L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti – back
    in the day, he was actually a conservative Republican.

    According to the Los Angeles Times: “Buck became a nationally
    known figure in the late 1980s when he led the successful effort
    to impeach Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham. Buck, who then described
    himself as a conservative Republican, set up shop in a downtown
    Phoenix office, where he hung a piñata effigy of the governor,
    seeded the recall movement with $5,000 of his own money and
    turned it into a full-time job. Upon learning Buck is gay,
    Mecham declared him a “militant homosexual.” Buck responded:
    ‘He’s right. So what?'”

    Wasn't Ed Buck a Republican when he was trying to evict Evan
    Meacham from the Arizona governor's mansion?

    — Dean Barnett (@DARSB1) January 8, 2019

    He is said to have a fixation on Black men getting high off meth
    Transgender activist and writer Ashlee Marie Preston, says she
    met Buck at the Stonewall Democratic Club, an LGBTQ political
    group, where she helped organize special events.

    Preston says during a club retreat in 2016 she was standing
    outside the resort one day when Buck – whom she only knew in
    passing – decided to join her. After a few minutes of small
    tack, Preston says Buck suddenly pulled out his phone and
    started playing a video of a young Black man smoking
    methamphetamine.

    Unbeknownst to Buck, Preston is a recovering meth addict and
    immediately recognized what she was looking at.

    READ MORE: ‘Serial predator’: Writer investigating Ed Buck for
    over a year shares disturbing findings

    “He was really fixated on the video. … He didn’t break away,”
    she recalled to the Los Angeles Times. “He just kept looking,
    and he just had this awkward smile, and he said, ‘He’s
    gorgeous.'”

    Today would have been Timothy Dean's 56th birthday.

    I just wrote the LA Sheriff's Dept. and asked for update on the
    death investigation at Ed Buck's home.

    Pictured: 30,000 petitions delivered to the DA seeking
    prosecution of Buck last month. pic.twitter.com/Z5jbKY3H58

    — Kate Sosin (@shoeleatherkate) March 25, 2019

    Writer Jasmyne Cannick has been warning us about him for a while
    Even though two Black men were found dead in Buck’s home within
    an 18 month period, writer Jasmyne Cannick says his list of
    alleged victims far exceeds what any of us could have imagined.

    In 2018 Cannick posted a warning on her Twitter that it would
    only be a matter of time before another man lost his life while
    feeding Buck’s dangerous sexual proclivities.

    “If another young, Black gay man overdoses or worse dies at
    Democratic donor Ed Buck’s apartment it’s going to be the fault
    of the sheriff’s dept and L.A. District Atty for not stopping
    him when they had the opportunity to,” Cannick wrote on Twitter
    in late July.

    If another young, Black gay man overdoses or worse dies at
    Democratic donor Ed Buck’s apartment it’s going to be the fault
    of the sheriff’s dept and L.A. District Atty for not stopping
    him when they had the opportunity to. #GemmelMoore
    #Justice4Gemmel pic.twitter.com/jlbS2KTvNe

    — Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) July 28, 2018

    After Moore died from a methamphetamine overdose in Buck’s
    apartment in July of 2017, Cannick contacted Moore’s friends and
    family, and discovered they’d found a rather detailed journal
    among his possessions. In the journal the 26-year-old outlined
    how Buck got him hooked on meth and drugged him against his will.

    READ MORE: How many Black men have to die in Ed Buck’s house of
    horrors before police finally arrest him?

    In the last year Cannick has conducted interviews with several
    men who said that Buck offered them money to let him administer
    an injection of crystal methamphetamine into their bodies, which
    is the most dangerous way to take the drug.

    All of her reports are published on her personal website along
    with pictures and videos taken by the men inside Buck’s
    apartment. She asserted that the 65 year old is a “predator” who
    preys on Black men who are going through tough times and need
    financial assistance.

    He’s had several restraining orders put out against him
    Buck is alleged to have a notoriously volatile temper and as a
    result there have been several restraining orders put out
    against him in the last decade or so.

    Former West Hollywood City Councilmember, Steve Martin used to
    be a good friend and ally to Buck, but says over time he noticed
    that his buddy was becoming increasingly problematic in his
    behavior.

    “It was clearly obvious after 2007 that this guy had a serious
    personality disorder,” Martin told WEHO TIMES, noting that his
    “erratic and unpredictable,” behavior led many fellow activists
    to suspect he was on drugs.

    “Everyone knew it,” Martin contined. “It’s bulls**t if they say
    they didn’t. It was like a family; you know, everyone in the
    family knew it. There were people who embraced it and they were,
    frankly, members of city council. They knew Ed had a lot of
    problems; they knew Ed was a controversial member of the
    community.”

    Two (confirmed) deaths, still no arrest
    The most dumbfounding thing about the Buck case is that despite
    the apparent growing list of evidence against him, and the
    bodies that have been found in his home, he still continues to
    evade arrest.

    Men who have managed to escape from him are now coming forward
    to share their firsthand accounts of what it’s like to have
    dealt with him.

    According to The Daily Mail, Jermaine Gagnon claims Buck paid to
    fly him from Minnesota to his apartment in Los Angeles, drugged
    him by dissolving a substance into his Gatorade and then
    injected him with drugs.

    Gagnon says he was homeless and couch-surfing in April 2018 when
    he met Buck on the gay dating site, Adam4Adam and was offered
    $200 to spend the evening with him at his West Hollywood
    apartment.

    READ MORE: Black man claims he fled Dem. donor Ed Buck’s
    apartment after being injected with meth

    “I had done sex for money other times but I don’t make it a
    habit,” said Gagnon.

    “It was just kind of weird,” he admits, explaining that the 63-
    year old enjoyed dressing him up and treating him like a sex
    slave.

    Gagnon said during this first meeting he smoked crystal meth
    with Buck who was open about the fact that he liked entertaining
    men who were, “Young, Black, handsome and well-endowed.”

    “He was quite open about being very generous to the Black
    community,” he said. “I’m his type and pretty much half of the
    Black community is his type – vulnerable, depressed. If you’re
    in a depressive state, that’s the energy that feeds him.”

    https://thegrio.com/2019/03/28/ed-buck-5-things-to-know-listicle/

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