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   From: eric.garcetti.black.penis.eater.democrats@disney.com   
      
   Ed Buck, a Los Angeles man accused of forcibly injecting black   
   gay men with fatal doses of drugs, targeted his victims for   
   years without facing consequences, authorities have said.   
      
   For the mother of one victim, it was clear how he got away with   
   his crimes: LA law enforcement ignored evidence, rejected the   
   stories of the black gay men who tried to speak up, and turned   
   away families fighting for justice.   
      
   “I’m a grieving mother, but they treated us like criminals,”   
   LaTisha Nixon, the mother of Gemmel Moore, told the Guardian on   
   Wednesday. “I haven’t been able to recover.”   
      
   Buck, a 65-year-old political activist and Democratic donor, was   
   arrested last week, with prosecutors saying he was a “violent   
   sexual predator” who ran a drug den and had at least 11 victims.   
   Authorities said he injected men with deadly doses of   
   methamphetamine, including Moore, 26, who overdosed inside   
   Buck’s West Hollywood apartment in July 2017.   
      
   If the Los Angeles sheriff’s department (LASD) and the LA county   
   district attorney, Jackie Lacey, had taken Moore’s death   
   seriously, and arrested and prosecuted him two years ago, Buck   
   would not have been able to harm so many additional people,   
   Nixon said.   
      
   “I didn’t ask for nothing special. I just wanted [Lacey] to do   
   her job,” said Nixon, who lives in Texas and was in LA this   
   week, meeting with black LGBT activists and lawyers who have   
   investigated Buck for years and pushed for charges. “We had our   
   proof. We gave her all of the evidence. I don’t know if she   
   ignored it because it was black gay men, or because it was gay   
   men, period. I got the runaround.”   
      
   Buck allegedly went after men who were struggling with   
   homelessness and drug addiction, offering to pay them for sex   
   and seeking to inject them. One victim told police he was known   
   locally as “Doctor Kevorkian”.   
      
   Buck is accused of giving some men tranquilizers without their   
   knowledge and drugging them while they were unconscious. Some   
   said they woke up to discover they had been sexually assaulted.   
   One victim said Buck threatened him with a power saw.   
      
   Timothy Dean, a second fatality, died of an overdose in Buck’s   
   home in January 2019.   
      
   The arrest last week came after a third victim, a 37-year-old   
   man identified as Joe Doe, overdosed non-fatally inside his West   
   Hollywood home this month. In that case, Buck refused to render   
   aid and thwarted the victim’s attempts to get help, forcing him   
   to flee and call 911, police said.   
      
   The LA district attorney charged Buck with drug felonies related   
   to that overdose, but the DA filed no charges in the deaths of   
   Moore and Dean. In Moore’s case, federal prosecutors charged   
   Buck with administering meth to a victim who died. Activists   
   have advocated for murder charges.   
      
   “I wanted everybody to know what this man did to my child, so he   
   couldn’t hurt anyone else’s kid or family member. I had to say   
   something,” Nixon said, recounting her decision to speak   
   publicly after her son’s death. “Timothy Dean’s death could’ve   
   been prevented if they had listened to us. But they didn’t.”   
      
   ‘They were not taken seriously’   
   Nixon said Moore was a jokester who loved to cook for others,   
   especially chicken parmesan: “Gemmel had a lot of aspirations …   
   He was adventurous. He was loving. He was caring. He was   
   nurturing. He spoke his mind.”   
      
   She said her son told her about Buck in 2016, telling her “he   
   was held in this man’s house for a few days and that he shot him   
   up with something and he didn’t know what it was”. She urged him   
   to report him to police, and he told her police wouldn’t help.   
      
   Jasmyne Cannick, an activist who has led the effort to get Buck   
   arrested and conducted her own investigations into him, said   
   that multiple victims tried to report Buck to the sheriff’s   
   office and were “turned away”, adding: “Numerous other Joe Does   
   were not taken seriously.”   
      
   “Because they were black gay men, the county didn’t care to   
   listen to their stories. The county didn’t care to follow up,”   
   said Hussain Turk, an attorney for Moore’s family.   
      
   The most recent overdose victim told reporters this week that he   
   was homeless and trying to get his life back together. Advocates   
   have been raising funds for him and other survivors and victims’   
   families and have argued that local authorities should be   
   providing support to the victims and witnesses.   
      
   Nixon said there were numerous times officials mistreated her in   
      
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