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   For many people, Ed Buck’s Tuesday night arrest was their first   
   introduction to the prominent Democratic donor and “LBGT   
   activist.” It was also their first introduction to not one, not   
   two, but three men who overdosed on crystal methamphetamine in   
   his West Hollywood apartment. In two cases, the overdoses were   
   fatal -- and many people close to those deceased allege that   
   Buck facilitated them. The third man who overdosed escaped   
   alive, and is the first to have successfully brought criminal   
   proceedings to Buck’s door.   
      
   It’s not wholly surprising that Ed Buck is only now becoming a   
   household name, or that the crimes he has repeatedly been   
   accused of have flown under the radar for years: Buck’s alleged   
   victims were Black men who used drugs and were known to engage   
   in sex work, or sex with other men. Though non-mainstream news   
   outlets identified Buck’s pattern over two years ago and have   
   continued to follow up with in-depth reporting, he’s evaded   
   serious scrutiny until now, allegedly by leveraging his   
   influence to target marginalized people.   
      
   26-year-old Gemmel Moore, was found dead in Buck’s apartment in   
   July 2017. Less than two years later, 55-year-old Timothy Dean   
   was found dead in Buck’s apartment in January 2019. After police   
   failed to file criminal charges in either death, Moore’s mother,   
   LaTisha Nixon, filed a lawsuit against Buck in February 2019. It   
   “alleges wrongful death, sexual battery, hate violence, drug   
   dealer liability, negligence, infliction of emotional distress,   
   and two violations of civil rights,” according to NBC Los   
   Angeles.   
      
   And now, a week after an anonymous man survived a Sept. 11   
   overdose in Buck’s apartment, Buck has finally been arrested and   
   charged with “operating a drug house” and giving meth to the   
   survivor, aka “Joe Doe.”   
      
   Activists, WeHo community members, the loved ones who mourned   
   Moore and Dean, and a handful of journalists have been talking   
   about Ed Buck since Moore’s death was classified as an   
   accidental overdose. Local reporters highlighted the pattern   
   early, and the news site WeHo Times broke the story all the way   
   back in 2017, writing that its research “reveal[ed] a pattern   
   that depicts a well heeled politico named Ed Buck as a man with   
   a history of allegations that he pays young, good-looking   
   African American men anywhere from $500-$3500 to inject, smoke   
   and otherwise ingest potentially fatal doses of crystal   
   methamphetamine and GHB during allegedly paid sexual   
   encounters.” The Root’s Michael Harriot has followed the Ed Buck   
   story since Moore’s death, and Buck was the subject of a handful   
   of articles in the Los Angeles Times following Dean’s death.   
      
   Journalist, radio host, and activist Jasmyne Cannick spoke with   
   more of Buck’s surviving victims, unpacked the circumstances   
   around Dean’s death after Buck accused the dead man of trying to   
   choke him with a noose, and published excerpts from Moore’s   
   diary, where he chronicled the way Buck introduced him to   
   crystal meth and documented his fear for his life before he died.   
      
   Cannick echoed this in a commentary piece for The Advocate:   
   “Like I’ve been saying all along, Ed Buck has never stopped the   
   same behavior that cost Gemmel and Timothy Dean their lives. All   
   this time Ed Buck has been operating with the impunity he knows   
   he has as a white man,” she wrote. “I do not believe that if the   
   community hadn’t kept calling for justice for Gemmel and Timothy   
   that we’d be here today.”   
      
   Cases like Buck’s highlight how easily people in power are able   
   to devalue certain lives, especially those that lack their   
   whiteness and affluence. If Buck is held accountable in court,   
   it would validate all the time and energy that the victims’   
   communities have invested in speaking up. However, it still   
   leaves the questions of why they had to work so hard in the   
   first place, and whether things might have gone differently if   
   the victims had the “right” racial background or line of work,   
   unanswered.   
      
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