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   Protesters demonstrated Monday night outside the home of Ed   
   Buck, the gay Democratic donor whose West Hollywood apartment   
   was the site of a man’s death that morning.   
      
   This is the second death in his home in a year and a half —   
   Gemmel Moore, 26, who like the other man was African-American,   
   died of a methamphetamine overdose in Buck’s apartment in July   
   2017.   
      
   Several black men have alleged that Buck, who is white, has a   
   fetish for shooting drugs into black men he picks up off the   
   street or on hookup sites. Moore had written about Buck   
   injecting him with dangerous drugs.   
      
   Buck said he was not responsible for Moore’s death and did not   
   supply him with drugs. The Los Angeles County District   
   Attorney’s office found there was insufficient evidence to file   
   charges against Moore in the case.   
      
   Activists are calling for a thorough investigation into the   
   death of the second man, whose name has not been made public.   
      
   “This man has had two dead bodies in his house and he’s still in   
   his house,” Los Angeles activist Jasmyne Cannick told   
   demonstrators Monday night, according to The Daily Beast. “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.”   
      
   The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is conducting a   
   “secondary review” of the circumstances surrounding Moore’s   
   death as it also investigates the new case, the Beast reports.   
      
   Seymour Amster, Buck’s attorney, said his client is cooperating   
   in the investigation. The man who died Monday was an old friend   
   of Buck’s who was under the influence of some substance when he   
   arrived at the apartment. “Ed was reluctant [to have him come   
   over], but the friend was insistent, so Ed allowed the friend to   
   come over,” Amster told NBC News. Amster said the man began   
   behaving strangely, so Buck called 911. The attorney has said   
   the cause of death appears to be an accidental overdose.   
      
   The Los Angeles LGBT Center has also urged a comprehensive   
   investigation of the case. “LGBT people have a considerable and   
   urgent interest in a case that is so clearly linked to the   
   health and safety of our community,” said a statement released   
   by the center, according to NBC. “The reports we have heard   
   provide more questions than answers.” The city of West Hollywood   
   has requested a full investigation by the sheriff’s department   
   as well.   
      
   Buck, while known for his donations to Democratic politicians   
   such as Hillary Clinton, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, and   
   outgoing California Gov. Jerry Brown, is a former Republican   
   whose history includes involvement in the effort to remove a   
   racist, homophobic Arizona governor from office.   
      
   Buck was born in 1954 in Steubenville, Ohio, and moved with his   
   family to Phoenix when he was 6. As a young man, he worked as a   
   fashion model and film extra. In the early 1980s in Arizona, he   
   joined a company called Rapid Information Services, which   
   “provided driver’s license information to insurance companies,”   
   according to a 2017 Wehoville profile of Buck. When the business   
   went bankrupt, he bought it and renamed it Gopher Courier. He   
   returned it to financial health and eventually sold it,   
   pocketing a profit of more than $1 million, he once told an   
   interviewer.   
      
   He then tried his hand at some other businesses and also became   
   politically active. He was still a Republican, but Arizona’s   
   Republican Gov. Evan Mecham, who took office in 1987, had   
   outraged members of both political parties. Mecham decreed that   
   the state would not observe a holiday honoring Rev. Martin   
   Luther King Jr., saying it had been established illegally, and   
   he also said King “didn’t deserve” the holiday. That led some   
   organizations to boycott the state.   
      
   He compounded his problems by referring to black children as   
   “pickaninnies” and made a long list of other offensive comments.   
   “Working women cause divorce, he said, and Jews should face up   
   to the fact that the United States is a Christian nation,” The   
   Washington Post noted in its obituary of Mecham in 2008. “When a   
      
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