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   Attorneys for the mother of Gemmel Moore, a 26-year-old man who   
   died of a methamphetamine overdose at the home of Ed Buck, have   
   filed an amendment to a wrongful death lawsuit that targets Los   
   Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey and Assistant Head   
   Deputy Attorney Craig Hum for failing to properly investigate   
   and charge Buck after Moore’s death in 2017.   
      
   Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, filed the lawsuit after Buck, a   
   prominent Democratic donor and political activist, was arrested   
   and charged earlier this month when another man suffered an   
   overdose at Buck’s West Hollywood apartment.   
      
   Nixon’s attorneys filed an amendment that included Lacey and   
   Hum, who they said violated Moore’s civil rights in their “race-   
   based refusal to prosecute Ed Buck.”   
      
   After her son’s death, Nixon and other activists gathered   
   evidence against Buck and attempted to pressure Lacey’s office   
   into filing charges. Buck was not charged at the time, with   
   prosecutors citing insufficient evidence.   
      
   Buck was ultimately charged in connection with Moore’s death   
   after his arrest earlier this month, more than two years later.   
      
   In that time, multiple other men fell victim to Buck’s predatory   
   behavior, including Timothy Dean, who died of a meth overdose at   
   Buck’s apartment in January, court documents say.   
      
   In naming Lacey and Hum as co-defendants, the lawsuit states:   
      
   Even after a second black man’s dead body was recovered from   
   Edward Buck’s apartment on January 7, 2019, and after LaTisha   
   Nixon presented the county of Los Angeles with several eye   
   witness statements by black gay men who had been similarly   
   forcibly injected with nearly fatal doses of narcotics by Edward   
   buck, District Attorney Jackie Lacey, and Assistant Head Deputy   
   District Attorney Craig Hum indicated on several occasions that   
   they had ignored Black gay men’s criminal complaints about   
   Edward buck, who has donated generously and consistently to   
   elected members of the county of Los Angeles, including District   
   Attorney Jackie Lacey.   
      
   Since 2017, Nixon has been openly critical of Lacey for not   
   prosecuting Buck in the face of what Nixon and other activists   
   said was overwhelming evidence, including excerpts from Moore’s   
   journal that said he had become addicted to drugs and “Ed Buck   
   is the one to thank.”   
      
   Moore’s last entry reads, “If it didn’t hurt so bad, I’d kill   
   myself but I’ll let Ed Buck do it for now.”   
      
   Last week, Nixon spoke out after Buck’s arrest, and again called   
   out Lacey.   
      
   “Jackie Lacey, she dragged her feet,” Nixon said, adding that   
   she’s grateful federal prosecutors have gotten involved in the   
   case.   
      
   “I haven’t heard from anybody,” Nixon said of federal   
   prosecutors. “I don’t plan to press them. I plan to let them do   
   their job, because I trust them a lot more than I do D.A. Jackie   
   Lacey.”   
      
   Part of Nixon’s motivation to target Lacey and Hum comes from   
   the discrepancies between the County of Los Angeles’ and the   
   United States’ criminal complaints against Buck.   
      
   “The primary discrepancy between these two complaints is that   
   the County’s criminal suit fails to charge Ed Buck for any of   
   the crimes he committed against the numerous Black gay victims   
   that Ms. Nixon presented to County officials over the course of   
   the County’s prolonged and defective ‘investigation.’ Meanwhile,   
   the United States’ criminal suit comprehensively charges Ed Buck   
   for the numerous crimes he committed against nearly all of these   
   Black gay victims,” attorney Hussain Turk said on Nixon’s   
   activist website, Justice4Gemmel.org.   
      
   The federal complaint includes eight men who provided similarly   
   harrowing encounters with Buck. The latest alleged victim   
   survived two overdoses in one week before he escaped Buck’s   
   apartment and called for help, which led to Buck’s arrest.   
      
   Lacey had said witnesses were reluctant or wouldn’t speak to   
   investigators. Nixon’s attorneys, however, disputed Lacey’s   
   assertions.   
      
   They said they accompanied victims mentioned in the criminal   
   complaint to interviews with sheriff’s deputies and provided   
   text messages, photos, videos and receipts of electronic   
   payments Buck made, the lawsuit states.   
      
   “Lacey admitted to having no knowledge whatsoever about the   
      
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