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LOS ANGELES—Chanting “arrest him now,” a group protest erupted
outside the home of wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck on Monday
night after a second man died inside his apartment within 18
months.

Dozens of people gathered at the white stucco apartment block in
West Hollywood, demanding the arrest of Buck, 64, a former model
and businessman. They claimed “lightning doesn’t strike twice.”

Buck, who resigned last year from the steering committee of the
Stonewall Democratic Club, was previously investigated for the
death of Gemmel Moore, a 26-year-old black man who died of a
methamphetamine overdose in July 2017 in the same apartment.
Moore was found naked on a mattress in the living room, littered
with drug paraphernalia, according to a coroner’s report into
his death.

Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s
homicide bureau began an investigation into the death of another
man—who is said to have been a black man in his fifties. They
said they are also conducting a “secondary review” of Moore’s
death. Last July, the district attorney’s office declined to
file charges in the Moore case, citing insufficient evidence.

Jasmyne Cannick, a community activist who has worked with
Moore’s family and conducted her own investigation into his
death, led last night’s protest and said the district attorney
and sheriff’s department have blood on their hands for failing
to properly investigate Buck.

Buck became a nationally known political activist in 1987 when
he led an effort to impeach Republican Arizona Governor Evan
Mecham. At the time Mecham called his critics a “band of
homosexuals and dissident Democrats.” Mecham was later
impeached over fraud and perjury allegations.

Since then he has made thousands of dollars of donations to
Democratic politicians, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton,
and Kyrsten Sinema, the new U.S. senator for Arizona. California
records show he recently donated to current LA mayor Eric
Garcetti in 2016 and 2017, former state Senate President Pro Tem
Kevin De León, and the current attorney general, Xavier Becerra.
(He also donated $100 to current Los Angeles District Attorney
Jackie Lacey's successful campaign for election in 2012. Lacey
was the DA who declined to file charges in the death of Moore
last July.)

Other prominent California Democrats Buck has donated to include
Ted Lieu, who was previously California State Senator and is now
a member of Congress and Mike Feuer who has been LA City
Attorney since 2013.

Cannick claims Buck lures men to his apartment for dangerous
sexual encounters. She says she has uncovered evidence from
Moore’s journal and from other men who say that Buck promises
money to people and then injects them with crystal meth for his
own gratification.

“You see somebody black going up there you need to come outside
and say ‘don't do it, don't go up there.’ Because this is
literally like a real life ‘Get Out’ movie.”
— Jasmyne Cannick, a community activist
Speaking to the large crowd at the rally, she said: “I’m not
surprised, none of us are surprised. We said that Jackie Lacey
[L.A. County district attorney] is going to have blood on her
hands and the sheriff’s department is going to have blood on its
hands.

“This man has had two dead bodies in his house and he’s still in
his house. The fact that Ed Buck is a prominent Democratic donor
should concern us all.

“He spreads his money around to get access and influence into
these powerful circles and we need our party to say no, no
longer. I’m out here just as a black person I’m outraged, as a
Democrat I’m outraged.

“He needs to be arrested, he needs to be sent to county jail
with no bail, he needs to be charged and then he needs to be
convicted and sent to prison. Not just for the person who died
today, but also for Gemmel Moore’s death. It wasn’t thoroughly
investigated.”

Cannick said Moore’s mother, Latisha Nixon—who helped her
investigate her son’s death—was “beside herself” at the news of
the latest death at Buck’s home, she said Nixon told her: “We
told them that this was going to happen.”

Cannick added: “Besides mourning for her son, who should be
alive and celebrating his 28th birthday, now she's mourning for
somebody else.

“Justice doesn’t always come right away, even if it’s two years
later and they get Ed Buck, I think his family will be OK with
that, I think the community would be OK with that. But we’re not
OK with this idea of this man being allowed to continue to live
as usual in his apartment.”

It was unclear if Buck was home as the protest erupted
underneath his window. A light was on in the apartment, but
neighbors said he had left and was staying with friends.

The crowd chanted “arrest him now” and “black lives matter” as
cops watched from across the street. Others shouted: “It’s a
death chamber,” “this is a cemetery” and “black boys are dying
here, nothing’s happening.”

Some protesters turned on the occupants who live in the same
apartment block, accusing them of being “complicit” by not doing
more to stop Buck and suggested it was racism that had led to
inaction in the case.

“Lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place, as they say.”
— Brian Hamilton, an associate of Buck
Castigating residents who had gathered on the front steps of the
block, one crowd member shouted: “If you see a black person
going into this apartment, tell them ‘Don’t go in there. You’re
going to die.’ Don’t be polite.”

Cannick added: “You see somebody black going up there, you need
to come outside and say ‘Don’t do it, don’t go up there.’
Because this is literally like a real life Get Out movie.
Somebody’s got to warn them.”

As part of her investigation, Cannick and Moore’s family
published pages from his diary in which he alleged that it was
Buck who introduced him to narcotics. In one excerpt from
December 2016, he wrote: “I honestly don’t know what to do. I’ve
become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that. 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.”

In another entry, he wrote: “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 manipulated into slamming (injecting
drugs) again. I even went to the point where I was forced to
doing 4 within a 2day period. This man is crazy and its sad.
Will I ever get help?”

He also wrote: “If it didn’t hurt so bad, I’d kill myself, but
I’ll let Ed Buck do it for now.”

Cannick says she has spoken to several other gay black men who
claim Buck would invite them to his house and pay them to take
drugs and “Party ‘n’ Play”—meaning to get high and perform sex
acts.

Last night, she said: “If you remember the coroner’s report from
2017, his home was littered with drug paraphernalia. It was a
treasure trove of drugs. All of the young men that we
interviewed all confirmed that he has to be the one to inject
you with the meth, that he likes to have control over you, that
the more you take, the more money he’s willing to pay you. That
only works on vulnerable people, who need money.”

Dallas Fowler, a delegate to the California Democratic Party who
helped Carrick investigate Moore’s death, was also at the rally.
She said: “This is not totally shocking because we knew he was
still actively seeking and recruiting men, but more heart-
breaking because it could have been prevented.”

She told The Daily Beast she and others had tried to get former
Los Angeles Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman to disown Buck
after Moore’s death, but it was met with silence. Bauman stood
down last November following his own sexual-misconduct
allegations.

Fowler said: “I supported the effort to try to get our party
chair at the time, Eric Bauman, to repudiate the actions and
activities of Ed Buck, they were dead silent at the time. A
number of these individuals, including Eric Bauman, received a
number of contributions from Mr. Buck and so it really spoke to
the cost of silence around that case. Six months ago, the
District Attorney’s Office said they weren’t going to prosecute.
Even though there were survivors of Ed Buck who spoke and could
testify to the fact that he injected them against their will.

“Gemmell left a journal which was very telling, but not only his
journal but also the testimonies of the survivors of Ed Buck.
Jasmyne really laid it out well on her website. It was Pulitzer
in my mind.”

Brian Hamilton, 54, who lives in the neighborhood, and also
knows Buck, said: “I know him. I haven’t been this close to him
in probably five years, wouldn’t want to come close to him, he
needs help and now he’s hurting other people. Lightning doesn’t
strike twice in the same place, as they say. This is an exact
carbon copy of the circumstance of the July 2017. It’s not a
coincidence. My impression of him now, I think he’s a very dark
soul, he needs help, he needs rehab but beyond that he might
even be criminally liable and there needs to be more active
investigation, I think they let that go to soon after the last
time. He’s very dangerous. We know there are risks with drug
using, but when it becomes potentially homicidal that’s
different.”

Buck’s lawyer, Seymour Amster, told the Los Angeles Times the
man died of an accidental overdose. He claimed he was an old
friend of Buck’s who had come over “intoxicated,” adding, “We
believe that the substance was ingested at some place other than
the apartment.”

However, The Daily Beast spoke to one neighbor who claimed to
have seen the victim arrive and buzz in just after midnight and
said he appeared “fine.”

The woman, who declined to be named, had thought the man looked
more like he was in his thirties, said: “I saw him go into the
building at 12:15 a.m. I was walking the dogs and I was walking
by and he was buzzing in and I knew where he was going, based on
that I’ve lived here for very long and I know what goes on there.

“I looked at him because I felt bad, because I was here the last
time this happened, so I really kind of looked at him, but he
seemed fine, he didn’t seem under the influence at all, he
seemed completely fine.

“He was on his own, he was bundled up, he looked like he was
wearing a coat and a hat, he was wearing something colorful,
maybe a scarf. He was African American.

“When I woke up this morning and I came out and I saw the news
trucks, I actually thought it was Buck [who died], they said no
the guy that who went in, I thought Jesus Christ I saw him go
in. I was horrified and really saddened and disgusted."

The woman, who said she has known Buck for 30 years, added:
“This is really, really shocking to me. He’s always been a good
guy, he’s a helpful neighbor. I saw him a few days ago, he’s
always cordial. I would like for this to be investigated fully,
I don’t want to see this happen again, it shouldn’t have
happened again, something’s wrong. This really needs to be
looked into.”

“I saw him come into the apartment at about 3 p.m. and leave in
a body bag about 7 p.m., four hours later.”
— neighbor Jeff Mitchell
Buck has lived in the rent-controlled apartment block for the
last 22 years. The Daily Beast spoke to several people who live
there who gave alarming accounts of his behavior.

Beatriz Albuquerque, 29, who lives in the apartment next door to
Buck, told how he has men over almost every day.

She said, “Usually it’s like one a day, but almost every day he
has somebody come over. Every time he has people over, they’re
usually quiet, it’s not like he has crazy parties.”

Albuquerque and her husband, Josh Tedla, 31, said Buck’s guests
seem “normal but sometimes a little weird” and they often hang
around the building after visiting or sit on the doorstep
calling Buck to get back in. Tedla said the only noise he heard
on Sunday was possibly furniture moving around.

Albuquerque spoke to Buck after Moore’s death, she said, “He
always talked about it as an accident, he didn’t say like
anything was his fault or anything but I don’t think he would.
He said that he was feeling very relieved.”

She added, “It’s freaky, it’s sad, it’s scary, I’m uncomfortable
with it. The fact that it’s happened before and now it’s
happening again. He’s a nice neighbor, he’s cordial, he always
says hello, but you never know what a person does when they’re
in their apartments. I guess it is like a double life.”

Jeff Mitchell, 41, saw Buck just before he left in a cop car in
the early hours of Monday morning. He told The Daily Beast, “I
saw him this morning. He was a little beside himself. He said
his friend had come over and OD’d and that was all he told me.
Then the cops took him away and I left.”

Mitchell said he did not see the man who died last night, but
recalled seeing Moore arrive when he died at Buck’s: “I saw him
come into the apartment at about 3 p.m. and leave in a body bag
about 7 p.m., four hours later.

“He [Buck] went into hiding for a while, and then I just never
brought it up again and he was staying with his lawyer last
time. He left, he’s probably staying with friends, he’ll be away
for a while.”

Cops were called to Buck's home just after 1 a.m. on Jan. 7 to a
“person not breathing.” The man was pronounced dead at the scene
and the cause of death is unknown.

Buck has not been arrested. However, the Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department said it is reopening the investigation into
Moore’s death in light of the latest fatality.

Nune Arnautovic, the property manager, told The Daily Beast the
owner wanted to evict him after Moore’s death, but wasn’t able
to, he said: “We try, my owner tried to evict him, it doesn’t
happen because he’s not in the jail, he’s not convicted of a
crime. How can they do it? I don’t know rules. I don’t know if
somebody protect him.”

Arnautovic said police took away CCTV footage from the property
today. He also said Buck was the person who called 911. He said
they will try again to evict him after the second death, adding,
“We will try for sure. I hope, I will be so happy [if they get
him out].”

Jerome Kitchen, 30, a local community activist and health
educator, who was a close friend of Moore’s, was also at the
rally. He said the news of another death had caused him to be
sick and that he plans to return there every day until
authorities act.

He said: “I pulled over and I instantly threw up because I felt
like that moment happened all over again. This is like his death
all over again to us. While Gemmel’s mother is planning to
memorialize her son on his birthday on Sunday, another mother
will be planning to bury her child.”

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