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For many people, Ed Buck’s Tuesday night arrest was their first
introduction to the prominent Democratic donor and “LBGT
activist.” It was also their first introduction to not one, not
two, but three men who overdosed on crystal methamphetamine in
his West Hollywood apartment. In two cases, the overdoses were
fatal -- and many people close to those deceased allege that
Buck facilitated them. The third man who overdosed escaped
alive, and is the first to have successfully brought criminal
proceedings to Buck’s door.

It’s not wholly surprising that Ed Buck is only now becoming a
household name, or that the crimes he has repeatedly been
accused of have flown under the radar for years: Buck’s alleged
victims were Black men who used drugs and were known to engage
in sex work, or sex with other men. Though non-mainstream news
outlets identified Buck’s pattern over two years ago and have
continued to follow up with in-depth reporting, he’s evaded
serious scrutiny until now, allegedly by leveraging his
influence to target marginalized people.

26-year-old Gemmel Moore, was found dead in Buck’s apartment in
July 2017. Less than two years later, 55-year-old Timothy Dean
was found dead in Buck’s apartment in January 2019. After police
failed to file criminal charges in either death, Moore’s mother,
LaTisha Nixon, filed a lawsuit against Buck in February 2019. It
“alleges wrongful death, sexual battery, hate violence, drug
dealer liability, negligence, infliction of emotional distress,
and two violations of civil rights,” according to NBC Los
Angeles.

And now, a week after an anonymous man survived a Sept. 11
overdose in Buck’s apartment, Buck has finally been arrested and
charged with “operating a drug house” and giving meth to the
survivor, aka “Joe Doe.”

Activists, WeHo community members, the loved ones who mourned
Moore and Dean, and a handful of journalists have been talking
about Ed Buck since Moore’s death was classified as an
accidental overdose. Local reporters highlighted the pattern
early, and the news site WeHo Times broke the story all the way
back in 2017, writing that its research “reveal[ed] a pattern
that depicts a well heeled politico named Ed Buck as a man with
a history of allegations that he pays young, good-looking
African American men anywhere from $500-$3500 to inject, smoke
and otherwise ingest potentially fatal doses of crystal
methamphetamine and GHB during allegedly paid sexual
encounters.” The Root’s Michael Harriot has followed the Ed Buck
story since Moore’s death, and Buck was the subject of a handful
of articles in the Los Angeles Times following Dean’s death.

Journalist, radio host, and activist Jasmyne Cannick spoke with
more of Buck’s surviving victims, unpacked the circumstances
around Dean’s death after Buck accused the dead man of trying to
choke him with a noose, and published excerpts from Moore’s
diary, where he chronicled the way Buck introduced him to
crystal meth and documented his fear for his life before he died.

Cannick echoed this in a commentary piece for The Advocate:
“Like I’ve been saying all along, Ed Buck has never stopped the
same behavior that cost Gemmel and Timothy Dean their lives. All
this time Ed Buck has been operating with the impunity he knows
he has as a white man,” she wrote. “I do not believe that if the
community hadn’t kept calling for justice for Gemmel and Timothy
that we’d be here today.”

Cases like Buck’s highlight how easily people in power are able
to devalue certain lives, especially those that lack their
whiteness and affluence. If Buck is held accountable in court,
it would validate all the time and energy that the victims’
communities have invested in speaking up. However, it still
leaves the questions of why they had to work so hard in the
first place, and whether things might have gone differently if
the victims had the “right” racial background or line of work,
unanswered.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxvav/democratic-fundraiser- ed-buck-sex-workers-overdose

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