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   LOS ANGELES—Chanting “arrest him now,” a group protest erupted   
   outside the home of wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck on Monday   
   night after a second man died inside his apartment within 18   
   months.   
      
   Dozens of people gathered at the white stucco apartment block in   
   West Hollywood, demanding the arrest of Buck, 64, a former model   
   and businessman. They claimed “lightning doesn’t strike twice.”   
      
   Buck, who resigned last year from the steering committee of the   
   Stonewall Democratic Club, was previously investigated for the   
   death of Gemmel Moore, a 26-year-old black man who died of a   
   methamphetamine overdose in July 2017 in the same apartment.   
   Moore was found naked on a mattress in the living room, littered   
   with drug paraphernalia, according to a coroner’s report into   
   his death.   
      
   Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s   
   homicide bureau began an investigation into the death of another   
   man—who is said to have been a black man in his fifties. They   
   said they are also conducting a “secondary review” of Moore’s   
   death. Last July, the district attorney’s office declined to   
   file charges in the Moore case, citing insufficient evidence.   
      
   Jasmyne Cannick, a community activist who has worked with   
   Moore’s family and conducted her own investigation into his   
   death, led last night’s protest and said the district attorney   
   and sheriff’s department have blood on their hands for failing   
   to properly investigate Buck.   
      
   Buck became a nationally known political activist in 1987 when   
   he led an effort to impeach Republican Arizona Governor Evan   
   Mecham. At the time Mecham called his critics a “band of   
   homosexuals and dissident Democrats.”  Mecham was later   
   impeached over fraud and perjury allegations.   
      
   Since then he has made thousands of dollars of donations to   
   Democratic politicians, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton,   
   and Kyrsten Sinema, the new U.S. senator for Arizona. California   
   records show he recently donated to current LA mayor Eric   
   Garcetti in 2016 and 2017, former state Senate President Pro Tem   
   Kevin De León, and the current attorney general, Xavier Becerra.   
   (He also donated $100 to current Los Angeles District Attorney   
   Jackie Lacey's successful campaign for election in 2012. Lacey   
   was the DA who declined to file charges in the death of Moore   
   last July.)   
      
   Other prominent California Democrats Buck has donated to include   
   Ted Lieu, who was previously California State Senator and is now   
   a member of Congress and Mike Feuer who has been LA City   
   Attorney since 2013.   
      
   Cannick claims Buck lures men to his apartment for dangerous   
   sexual encounters. She says she has uncovered evidence from   
   Moore’s journal and from other men who say that Buck promises   
   money to people and then injects them with crystal meth for his   
   own gratification.   
      
   “You see somebody black going up there you need to come outside   
   and say ‘don't do it, don't go up there.’ Because this is   
   literally like a real life ‘Get Out’ movie.”   
   — Jasmyne Cannick, a community activist   
   Speaking to the large crowd at the rally, she said: “I’m not   
   surprised, none of us are surprised. We said that Jackie Lacey   
   [L.A. County district attorney] is going to have blood on her   
   hands and the sheriff’s department is going to have blood on its   
   hands.   
      
   “This man has had two dead bodies in his house and he’s still in   
   his house. The fact that Ed Buck is a prominent Democratic donor   
   should concern us all.   
      
   “He spreads his money around to get access and influence into   
   these powerful circles and we need our party to say no, no   
   longer. I’m out here just as a black person I’m outraged, as a   
   Democrat I’m outraged.   
      
   “He needs to be arrested, he needs to be sent to county jail   
   with no bail, he needs to be charged and then he needs to be   
   convicted and sent to prison. Not just for the person who died   
   today, but also for Gemmel Moore’s death. It wasn’t thoroughly   
   investigated.”   
      
   Cannick said Moore’s mother, Latisha Nixon—who helped her   
   investigate her son’s death—was “beside herself” at the news of   
   the latest death at Buck’s home, she said Nixon told her: “We   
   told them that this was going to happen.”   
      
   Cannick added: “Besides mourning for her son, who should be   
      
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