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Jasmyne Cannick was speaking at a Democratic club meeting
Tuesday night when her phone buzzed with a text: The police were
raiding Ed Buck’s West Hollywood apartment.

His neighbors had been alerting Cannick, a political consultant
and activist for the black LGBTQ community, about comings and
goings at the location after two gay black men in less than two
years died of drug overdoses in the influential Democratic
donor’s home.

Buck’s arrest Tuesday, about a week after a third man overdosed
in his apartment, was grim vindication for the black LGBTQ
community, which has crusaded for more than two years to hold
him accountable, even in the face of what some said was silence
by many Democrats and LGBTQ activists in West Hollywood.

Many have likened the effort to the Black Lives Matter movement,
formed after a spate of high-profile police shootings of young
black men.

“Like America, the LGBTQ community is divided along racial
lines, and that is reflected in West Hollywood. It is still not
as welcoming to people of color and specifically those who are
black,” Cannick said. “It took outside forces to bring change.”

Buck is accused of operating a drug house, with prosecutors
alleging he lured in vulnerable men with money and shelter, then
injected them with methamphetamine for sexual gratification. In
the latest case, a 37-year-old man survived, but prosecutors say
in court papers that Buck is still a suspect in the two overdose
deaths.

Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, could not be reached for
comment Wednesday. In the past, he has said his client was a man
with a “heart of gold” who invited troubled people into his home
to help them.

Buck’s status sowed doubts among Cannick and other black
activists.

That doubt, she said, was reflective of how people felt about
the criminal justice system, particularly how it relates to the
value of black lives. But Cannick and others pressured law
enforcement to investigate and kept the case in the public eye
by protesting.

Jerome Kitchen, a black gay activist and godbrother of the first
victim, organized a group to pass out fliers warning young gay
men about Buck.

“We passed them out everywhere, in the neighborhood, and in
known areas for homeless young gay males — anywhere we thought
he would troll,” Kitchen said.

He and others felt Buck’s arrest was too little too late.

“He should’ve been arrested after the first time…. I think the
message that was sent was young gay black men don’t count,” Rep.
Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) told The Times. “I think if he had
been victimizing young white men, there would’ve been an
outrage.”

Bass said that when she realized that Buck had donated to her
campaign, she was repulsed and sent the money to the family of
the first victim.

The latest case involves a man identified in court papers as Joe
Doe, who went on Sept. 4 to Buck’s apartment, where Buck
“personally and deliberately” administered a large dose of
methamphetamine, prosecutors said in court papers. Concerned he
was suffering an overdose, the man left the apartment to get
medical help.

He returned to Buck’s apartment Sept. 11, when Buck again
injected him with “two dangerously large” doses of
methamphetamine, prosecutors said.

Buck then allegedly thwarted the man’s attempts to get help. The
man eventually fled the apartment and called 911 from a gas
station. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Sheriff’s Department investigators found hundreds of photographs
in Buck’s home of men in compromising positions, prosecutors
said.

“The detectives worked night and day putting this case
together,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. He
said “Joe Doe” was able to provide investigators with vital
evidence, while the two previous overdose deaths demonstrated
for prosecutors a pattern of behavior.

David Cunningham, a law student and a black gay activist,
welcomed the news of Buck’s arrest but questioned whether the
upcoming district attorney election influenced the case.

“People want to be reelected,” he said. “Before election season,
or campaign season, really started, they ignored the facts of
this case. They allowed two men, two black gay men, to die in
[Buck’s] home without intervening. That is a problem.”

Gemmel Moore’s death in July 2017 was initially ruled an
accident, and sheriff’s deputies said they found nothing
suspicious. The case was reopened the next month when Moore’s
mother and friends questioned whether the drugs that killed him
were self-administered.

They pointed to a journal found in Moore’s possession, pages of
which were reviewed by The Times, in which the 26-year-old
purportedly wrote about using crystal methamphetamine.

“Ed Buck is the one to thank,” Moore appears to have written.
“He gave me my first injection of chrystal meth.”

Last year, homicide investigators asked prosecutors to consider
four charges in Moore’s death: murder, voluntary manslaughter,
and furnishing and possessing drugs. Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey
declined to file a case, citing insufficient evidence.

When a second man — Timothy Dean, 55 — died of an overdose in
January, the Sheriff’s Department said it would take another
look at the first case.

After Dean’s death, a neighbor observed black men going into
Buck’s building two or three times a week, sometimes more, often
at late hours. The neighbor, who asked not to be identified
because of safety concerns, contacted Cannick with the
information.

“I literally felt an obligation to be eyes and ears at all
times,” the neighbor told The Times.

When another neighbor tipped Cannick off to Buck’s arrest
Tuesday night, she told her club she had to go — and why.
Members erupted in cheers.

On her way to Buck’s apartment, Cannick called the families of
Moore and Dean to relay the news.

“Finally,” they responded, as they wept.

Moore’s mother, Latisha Nixon, has filed a federal lawsuit
against Buck, Los Angeles County and the district attorney.

The lawsuit accuses Buck of sexual assault, battery and wrongful
death, among other claims, and faults Lacey’s office for failing
to prosecute Buck despite the two fatal overdoses in his
apartment.

“Since then, Ms. Nixon, with the support of her community, has
single handedly shouldered the entire weight of the
investigation into her son’s death, mobilizing extensive
outreach to identify and provide to the Sheriff’s Department
nearly one dozen percipient witnesses,” Nixon’s attorneys wrote
in court papers filed this summer. “Each of these Black gay
witnesses shared independently corroborating accounts about
sexually violent and predatory meth-fueled encounters with Mr.
Buck in his West Hollywood apartment.”

Buck’s attorney, Amster, has written in court papers that
Nixon’s lawsuit is “replete with allegations that cannot be
supported by admissible evidence, spurious accusations
unsupported by facts, and a character assassination.”

Amster noted in court papers that Moore was an adult and that
his mother was not present for the alleged conduct, arguing that
she has little standing to sue Buck.

In a ruling issued last week, U.S. District Judge Cormac J.
Carney dismissed several claims against Lacey and her office but
gave attorneys for Moore’s mother two weeks to amend their
lawsuit.

The judge mostly quashed efforts by Buck’s attorneys to throw
out the claims against him but dismissed the wrongful-death and
hate-violence claims.

The district attorney’s office declined to comment Wednesday
about whether Buck could face additional charges in Moore’s or
Dean’s deaths.

Cannick said she will keep pushing for that to happen.

“This isn’t over,” she said. “This is really just the beginning.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-19/ed-buck- arrest-and-lgbtq-black-activism-in-west-hollywood

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