It’s happened again.
The body of another young black man was found inside the West Hollywood apartment of Ed Buck, a one-time-Republican-turned-high-profile-Democratic-Party-donor and political activist.
Wehoville reports that in the early hours of Monday morning, the body of an African American man was wheeled out on a gurney from Buck’s home on Laurel Avenue.
The identity of the man has not yet been released, but it’s a sad repeat of a similar incident that happened back in July 2017 when Buck was investigated following the death of Gemmel Moore, a 26-year-old black man who overdosed on meth inside the 65-year-old’s home.
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Moore’s death was classified as an accidental overdose, despite several people, including Moore’s mother, coming forward to accuse Buck of having a fetish for watching young black men get high.
At the time, Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, told WeHo Times that her son was a sex worker and that Buck was one of his regular clients.
“[Buck] would have my son to go out to… Santa Monica Boulevard looking for young gay black guys so he could inject them with drugs, see their reaction and how [they] would react and take pictures of them,” she alleged.
“[He] would supply heroin, meth and other drugs to him to smoke or use with a needle. Buck would pleasure himself at the sight of my son using drugs.”
In a journal entry from December 2016, Moore wrote: “I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that. Ed Buck is the one to thank. He gave me my first injection of crystal meth.”
During their 2017 investigation, police found syringes and “clear plastic bags with suspected methamphetamine in a tool box roll-cabinet in the living room,” 24 syringes with brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear plastic bags with white powdery residue, and a clear plastic bag with a “piece of crystal-like substance” inside Buck’s home.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney ultimately declined to file any charges against him, citing “insufficient evidence.”
At the time, many accused officials of not fully investigating Buck because of his ties to powerful politicians like Hillary Clinton and California governor Jerry Brown, as well as several local West Hollywood politicians whose campaigns he donated to.
This time, at least two City Council members, John D’Amico and Lindsey Horvath, are pressing City Manager Paul Arevalo and newly elected Sheriff Alex Villanueva to prioritize the young man’s death. Meanwhile, councilmember Lauren Meister is calling for LAPD’s homicide division to investigate.
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Bob LaBlah
Ok, two guys were found dead in his apartment. Now where is the proof that it was he who supplied the drugs? I know how harsh and uncaring that sounds but I am willing to be that is the argument that his attorney is presenting and winning with.
dinard38
“During their 2017 investigation, police found syringes and “clear plastic bags with suspected methamphetamine in a tool box roll-cabinet in the living room,” 24 syringes with brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear plastic bags with white powdery residue, and a clear plastic bag with a “piece of crystal-like substance” inside Buck’s home.”
Sounds like more than enough proof. He had to have used his connections to get out of not being charged after all of this drug paraphernalia was found in his home. Don’t think he’s gonna get off a 2nd time.
Bob LaBlah
Now prove that it WASN”T the deceased who brought that stuff in. Good luck.
spacecadet
You could find the drug dealer who sold the drugs willing to snitch on Buck for the right price.
Vince
So tired of this. Everyone’s a victim blah blah blah. Yeah I’m sure he had a gun to their heads to force them to do the drugs. Lol
If it wasn’t for this guy’s celebrity or whatever nobody would give a shit. Its just tweakers doing what tweakers do. Nobody ever said meth was safe.
Curtispsf
Yeah…and SUPPLYING meth is not safe either. No one’s saying that the victims had a gun to their head but supplying drugs from a roll top tool box is clearly enough evidence for probable cause to arrest gramps.
prarie pup
One of them wrote, “I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that. Ed Buck is the one to thank.” Uhhhmm, have you ever heard of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, buddy?
Bob LaBlah
If Ed Buck was the one paying for the drugs don’t you find it ungrateful to not thank him for the outcome? Weren’t you taught ANY manners? I find it VERY hard to believe those poor guys bought those drugs but it would not shock me to learn ol’ uncle Ed did.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Nothing but a business transaction gone wrong.
Of course the right wing nut bags will latch on to this as “another example of Gay depravity”. When it has happened far more times with straight men and prostitutes
Kangol
Democrat or not in a very Democratic city, county and state, Ed Buck is clearly at the nexus of some foul crap, and probably should be investigated. People don’t turn up dead, under similar circumstances, over a span of years, in most people’s homes, so clearly there’s a trend and a bad one at that. It has echoes of the Jeffrey Epstein case, except that these are adults Buck is dealing with, and Buck has reached the conviction stage only for some powerful political “angel” to step in and let him off the hook.
Kangol
Buck has not reached the conviction stage yet…
Prax07
So two hookers OD and it’s news? Isn’t that like the way most hookers end up kicking the bucket?
Vince
No but I’m sure no one will be shedding a tear when your day comes. You know. Being a POS and all..
Me2
He’s a predator and is that much closer to his day of reckoning.
iamru2
Poundmetoo please.
iamru2
Poundmetoo please!
mtofft
The lack of empathy in here is disgusting, but not surprising. This is a site full of vile, white homosexuals that only give a damn about themselves.
DHT
The sheer volume of Ed Buck apologists should indicate to anyone viewing this story or any other story about this that something is very wrong with the gay community and the way men treat and view the other men they have sex with.
lwoody75
If the dead kid was a white porn actor the outrage would be everywhere. The lack of empathy in our community is so disgusting. Nice to know the right wing is not the only people who hate gay people
HereIAm
Sympathy and empathy for druggies? Who cares if they are white or black or Asian? Don’t you think they either deserved what they did to themselves or it was karma of justice? No tears from me. Justice is served.
not a clone
Truth!
Blackceo
The comments on here show the sheer ignorance and stigma when it comes to addiction. These are ill people but because its not cancer or something socially acceptable, there is less sympathy shown. So many substance abusers are diagnosed as co-occurring and most have gone with untreated mental health for years. Forget this case in particular…the sheer vileness and lack of sympathy for people who happen to be in addiction is sad.
HereIAm
You have the nerve to compare cancer patients, who suffer from the life-altering illness through no fault of their own in most cases, with druggies who knowingly put the poisonous stuff in their system and then expect the society to treat them like a patient. No, if they want to quit, they can quit. If they can’t quit, that’s because they don’t want to.
Blackceo
@HereIAm….so then I assume you are going to put lung cancer patients who got the disease as a result of their choice of smoking in that same category as well, since you are picking and choosing who is worthy of treatment and intervention?
Goforit
HereIAm….Your mother must be so proud of your straight A’s in sociality and science from Trump University. Your lack of compassion and understanding is truly disgusting.
HereIAm
Unlike a hard drug addict, having a cancer diagnosis doesn’t turn a person into a thief, a loser who can’t hold a job, a heart breaker who hurts his partner and family and relatives, or a sex crazed maniac obsessed with anonymous online hookups.
natashakapoor
So tired of this. Everyone’s a victim blah blah blah.
Heywood Jablowme
Some weird comments here. From what I’ve seen the news, an o.d. is not considered just a matter of “personal responsibility.” The legal system often charges the supplier of the drugs with responsibility for the death, up to and including a murder charge.
JerseyMike
When a drug dealer provides the drugs and kills someone, its the drug dealers fault. What different here? This guy is providing the drugs. Why else would these guys come to his place. I’m sure from the kindness of his heart he is just hanging out with addicts.
HereIAm
Nobody is saying it’s not the drug dealer’s fault but unless the dealer administers the drug on the druggie by force, the latter is still primarily responsible for his action.So yes it is about personal responsibility.
Creamsicle
The most disgusting thing about this is that he will probably settle out of court for a light sentence and only serve a fraction of it, all likely under hospitable conditions and facilities.
JerseyMike
@HereIam That’s no true. Anytime a drug dealer sells/gives anyone a drug that kills them the cop are looking into it as a crime.
Prax07
No amount of preaching that addicts or alcoholics are sick and it’s a disease will Ever convince me of that. They’re weak willed people who make bad choices, and that’s considered a disease!?! If an addict overdoses and dies then that’s all on them. They reap what they sow. They die from it, good, one less drain on society.
Attlebert
Geez. HereIam- you are usually so ‘holier than thou’, such a good 2 shoes calling people who trick or have multiple sex partners depraved. I would say some one has sucker punched us all with a con artist who just stirs up trouble- yup HereIam! Your family must be so proud of your asinine, depraved, and cold compassion for anyone who uses drugs. Those unfortunate young men who lost their lives not just because of taking drugs- but it certainly looks like Mr Buck should charged, convicted and receive a death-inducing injection. This is not about black or white, but as a nurse my heart aches for those boys’ families.
HereIAm
Not a shred of sympathy for druggies or their family. In fact, their family has failed them – miserably. It is what it is and your sugarcoating the situation doesn’t help anyone but keep the druggies in hell. People who do hard drugs are not unfortunate. Nobody points a gun at them and force them to od. They did it to themselves and they deserved what ultimately befell them.
sydboy007
Interesting. If he was a donor to republicans I’m sure that information would have been in the title. The fact the political party wasn’t mentioned made me 99% sure it wasn’t a republican donor doing a habeus corpus a second time
DHT
My only question is that if we know about two in two years, how many others have there been that we don’t know about?