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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.

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.

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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