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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.   
      
   READ MORE: Another Black Man is found dead in home of California   
   Democratic donor Ed Buck   
      
   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   
      
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