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   From: eric.garcetti.democrat.dick-fluffer@disney.com   
      
   The death of yet another Black man in the West Hollywood home of   
   LGBTQ activist and prominent Democratic donor Ed Buck is on the   
   hands of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and District   
   Attorney because it didn’t have to happen. Ed Buck should have   
   been behind bars for the death of the first man who died in his   
   house of an overdose.   
      
   In July 2017, 26-year-old Gemmel Moore died of a crystal meth   
   overdose in Ed Buck’s apartment.  Moore was Black, gay, homeless   
   and sometimes worked as a sex worker — so of course the police   
   immediately deemed it an open and shut case of an accidental   
   overdose.   
      
   But after Moore’s personal journal was published and other young   
   men stepped forward recounting similar stories about Ed Buck.   
   They've said he has a Tuskegee Experiment-like fetish which   
   includes shooting drugs into young Black men who he picks up off   
   the street or via dating hookup websites. Their warnings forced   
   the sheriff’s department to finally open a homicide   
   investigation.   
      
   You’d think this was the plot to the sequel of Jordan Peele’s   
   film Get Out if it wasn’t true.   
   In his journal, Moore wrote, “I honestly don’t know what to do.   
   I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that,” a   
   December 2016 entry reads. “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.”   
      
   “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   
   munipulated [sic] into slamming again. I even went to the point   
   where I was forced to doing 4 within a 2day [sic] period. This   
   man is crazy and its [sic] sad. Will I ever get help?”   
      
   His last entry, dated December 3, 2016, reads: “If it didn’t   
   hurt so bad, I’d kill myself but I’ll let Ed Buck do it for now.”   
      
   A coroner’s report described that there were, “24 syringes with   
   brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn   
   marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear   
   plastic bags with white powdery residue and a clear plastic bag   
   with a ‘piece of crystal-like substance,” on the night that   
   Moore died.   
      
   Buck has since been accused by numerous young Black gay men of   
   being a sexual predator, kidnapping, forced drug use, injecting   
   them while unconscious with crystal meth, filing false police   
   reports to cover his crimes, coercion, and pimping and pandering   
   by multiple victims.   
      
   For two years we worked to bring forth witness after witness who   
   told authorities about Ed Buck and how he uses the internet to   
   stalk and prey on young, Black gay men who are usually homeless,   
   HIV-positive, and often work as male escorts.   
      
   No one listened to them.   
      
   We repeatedly told the Sheriff’s Department and the District   
   Attorney’s office that if Buck wasn’t stopped, that another man   
   was going to end up dead in his apartment. Now, in the light of   
   another death in Buck's apartment, a lieutenant finally told   
   reporters the deaths are "suspicious."   
      
   Regrettably, six months later almost to the day and just days   
   before what would have been Gemmel Moore’s 28th birthday,   
   another body of a Black man has been removed from Buck’s   
   apartment under equally suspicious circumstances.   
      
   And just like in 2017, Buck has not been detained, arrested or   
   has criminal charges filed against him opening up the   
   possibility that there could be a third dead body in the near   
   future.   
      
   Had Buck been arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced for Moore's   
   death, chances are he would not have been around for anyone else   
   to “die” in his apartment.   
      
   Dr. Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson) and Cathy Smith (John   
   Belushi) are proof that there’s a precedent in fairly similar   
   circumstances.   
      
   The exploitation and manipulation of vulnerable young Black gay,   
   bisexual, trans, and queer men who are largely seen as   
   expendable by privileged, white male predators must stop.   
      
   And while the white LGBTQ+ community was quick to come for Kevin   
   Hart’s Oscar hosting job over his past homophobic comments, the   
   reaction hasn’t been the same in condemning one of their own and   
   his dead Black body problem.   
      
   As a Black woman, I know that if the roles were reversed, Gemmel   
   Moore would not have benefited from the color of his skin, his   
   years of political donations and relationships with politicians.   
   His word on what happened would not have been enough for the   
   police. Gemmel or any other Black man who had a dead white man   
      
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