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   A wrongful death civil rights lawsuit has been filed in Los   
   Angeles County Superior Court against Ed Buck, L.A. County   
   District Attorney Jackie Lacey and Craig Hum, assistant head   
   deputy district attorney, in the 2017 death of 26-year-old   
   Gemmel Moore at Buck’s Laurel Avenue apartment. The suit has   
   been filed on behalf of Moore’s estate and his mother, LaTisha   
   Nixon.   
      
   Moore, an African-American man who was a sex worker, was found   
   dead of a crystal meth overdose in Buck’s apartment on July 27,   
   2017.  Buck, who is 65, is a white man known for luring young   
   black men to his apartment through posts on gay sex sites such   
   as Adam4Adam.com.   
      
   Moore’s death was classified as an accidental methamphetamine   
   overdose by the coroner. A protest by Moore’s family and friends   
   and calls from L.A.  City Councilmember Mike Bonin and West   
   Hollywood City Councilmember Lindsey Horvath led the L.A. County   
   Sheriff’s Department’s homicide bureau to launch an   
   investigation into Moore’s death.  On July 26, 2018, the   
   District Attorney’s office declined to file charges against   
   Buck, citing insufficient evidence.   
      
   On Jan. 7 of this year,  Timothy Dean, a 55-year-old black man,   
   also was found dead in the 65-year-old Buck’s apartment. Buck’s   
   lawyer, Seymour Amster, has said that Dean appeared to have been   
   under the influence of some substance when he entered Buck’s   
   apartment late that night. The coroner has been barred by the   
   Sheriff’s Department from disclosing the cause of death.   
      
   Dean’s death, currently under investigation, has sparked a   
   renewed investigation by Sheriff’s detectives into the   
   circumstances of Moore’s death, with detectives travelling as   
   far away as New York City to interview young black men who   
   claimed that Buck paid to fly to his apartment for erotic   
   encounters. Both deaths also have prompted demonstrations in   
   front of Buck’s home, in front of the West Hollywood Sheriff’s   
   Station and at the City Council Chambers on San Vicente   
   Boulevard, with protestors claiming that Buck’s reputation as a   
   donor to local, state and federal Democratic Party candidates   
   has protected him from arrest. This afternoon, the Color of   
   Change black activist group delivered 30,000 petitions to D.A.   
   Lacey demanding that Buck be arrested.   
      
   Buck, through his lawyer, Seymour Amster, has denied that he was   
   involved in either death. Amster has described both Moore and   
   Dean as friends of Buck’s who he has offered to help.   
      
   “Our hope is that this lawsuit will bring some modicum of   
   justice for Gemmel and all of Ed Buck’s victims,” said Nana   
   Gymafi, human rights and criminal defense attorney and co-   
   counsel for Ms. Nixon.  “Gemmel cries out to us in his journals   
   and his words to family and friends to hold Ed Buck accountable   
   for his torture and death at Ed Buck’s hands. There is an aspect   
   of this lawsuit that is about holding Ed Buck accountable in the   
   language that he as a wealthy political donor understands–money.   
   Ed Buck can never fully compensate Gemmel’s mother and his   
   family for hurting and killing Gemmel as we have alleged, but as   
   a wealthy donor, it is only fitting that he take the funds he   
   uses to influence politicians like Los Angeles County District   
   Attorney Jackie Lacey to atone for his crimes against Gemmel.   
      
   “Additionally, Gemmel’s family has been clear since Gemmel was   
   killed that they seek justice for all of Ed Buck’s victims as   
   well as the prevention of future victims. This lawsuit helps to   
   protect a very vulnerable population of gay black men by   
   exposing details of Buck’s predatory and racially-discriminatory   
   actions against gay black men. Ed Buck has already felt the   
   pressure with the work that journalist Jasmyne Cannick and   
   Justice4Gemmel and All of Ed Buck’s Victims have done to lift   
   the sheets off of Buck and his deadly and racist predations.   
      
   “If Ed Buck had any decency at all, he would have already come   
   forward and apologized and offered to compensate Gemmel Moore   
   and Timothy Dean’s families for the terrible harm and trauma he   
   has caused through his actions. But, Buck is not a decent human   
   being, and so we are forced to bring this lawsuit to get some   
   accountability and justice.”   
      
   The lawsuit is seeking damages against Ed Buck for wrongful   
   death, sexual battery, drug dealer liability, premises   
   liability, negligence per se, intentional infliction of   
   emotional distress and hate violence.   
      
   The lawsuit claims that District Attorney Lacey and Craig Hum   
      
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