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   Jasmyne Cannick was speaking at a Democratic club meeting   
   Tuesday night when her phone buzzed with a text: The police were   
   raiding Ed Buck’s West Hollywood apartment.   
      
   His neighbors had been alerting Cannick, a political consultant   
   and activist for the black LGBTQ community, about comings and   
   goings at the location after two gay black men in less than two   
   years died of drug overdoses in the influential Democratic   
   donor’s home.   
      
   Buck’s arrest Tuesday, about a week after a third man overdosed   
   in his apartment, was grim vindication for the black LGBTQ   
   community, which has crusaded for more than two years to hold   
   him accountable, even in the face of what some said was silence   
   by many Democrats and LGBTQ activists in West Hollywood.   
      
   Many have likened the effort to the Black Lives Matter movement,   
   formed after a spate of high-profile police shootings of young   
   black men.   
      
   “Like America, the LGBTQ community is divided along racial   
   lines, and that is reflected in West Hollywood. It is still not   
   as welcoming to people of color and specifically those who are   
   black,” Cannick said. “It took outside forces to bring change.”   
      
   Buck is accused of operating a drug house, with prosecutors   
   alleging he lured in vulnerable men with money and shelter, then   
   injected them with methamphetamine for sexual gratification. In   
   the latest case, a 37-year-old man survived, but prosecutors say   
   in court papers that Buck is still a suspect in the two overdose   
   deaths.   
      
   Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, could not be reached for   
   comment Wednesday. In the past, he has said his client was a man   
   with a “heart of gold” who invited troubled people into his home   
   to help them.   
      
   Buck’s status sowed doubts among Cannick and other black   
   activists.   
      
   That doubt, she said, was reflective of how people felt about   
   the criminal justice system, particularly how it relates to the   
   value of black lives. But Cannick and others pressured law   
   enforcement to investigate and kept the case in the public eye   
   by protesting.   
      
   Jerome Kitchen, a black gay activist and godbrother of the first   
   victim, organized a group to pass out fliers warning young gay   
   men about Buck.   
      
   “We passed them out everywhere, in the neighborhood, and in   
   known areas for homeless young gay males — anywhere we thought   
   he would troll,” Kitchen said.   
      
   He and others felt Buck’s arrest was too little too late.   
      
   “He should’ve been arrested after the first time…. I think the   
   message that was sent was young gay black men don’t count,” Rep.   
   Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) told The Times. “I think if he had   
   been victimizing young white men, there would’ve been an   
   outrage.”   
      
   Bass said that when she realized that Buck had donated to her   
   campaign, she was repulsed and sent the money to the family of   
   the first victim.   
      
   The latest case involves a man identified in court papers as Joe   
   Doe, who went on Sept. 4 to Buck’s apartment, where Buck   
   “personally and deliberately” administered a large dose of   
   methamphetamine, prosecutors said in court papers. Concerned he   
   was suffering an overdose, the man left the apartment to get   
   medical help.   
      
   He returned to Buck’s apartment Sept. 11, when Buck again   
   injected him with “two dangerously large” doses of   
   methamphetamine, prosecutors said.   
      
   Buck then allegedly thwarted the man’s attempts to get help. The   
   man eventually fled the apartment and called 911 from a gas   
   station. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.   
      
   Sheriff’s Department investigators found hundreds of photographs   
   in Buck’s home of men in compromising positions, prosecutors   
   said.   
      
   “The detectives worked night and day putting this case   
   together,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. He   
   said “Joe Doe” was able to provide investigators with vital   
   evidence, while the two previous overdose deaths demonstrated   
   for prosecutors a pattern of behavior.   
      
   David Cunningham, a law student and a black gay activist,   
   welcomed the news of Buck’s arrest but questioned whether the   
   upcoming district attorney election influenced the case.   
      
      
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