Another Black man has been found dead at the home of wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck.
Authorities were on the scene to investigate at around 3:35 a.m. on Monday morning, according to WeHoville.
The deceased man’s name has not been released.
This incident marks the second time a Black gay man has died in Buck’s home. Gemmel Moore died of a suspected overdose in July 2017, as Blavity previously reported. Moore’s friends and family accused Buck of drugging young Black gay men for his sexual amusement.
“[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,” Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, said of Buck in 2017. She said she got that information from one of Moore’s associates.
John Bice, another friend, validated Nixon’s story and described how Buck preyed on vulnerable people.
“Basically this guy would find young struggling black guys around town, pick them up and say he was going to help them out — make sure they had clothes and food. … He wanted to see them get high, first with weed. Then one day, the guy wanted him to shoot up,” Bice said.
The Advocate reports Buck was never charged for the 26-year-old’s death because evidence was “insufficient to prove [guilt] beyond a reasonable doubt,” according to the Los Angeles DA office.
Buck is known for donating to major Democratic candidates including Hillary Clinton and West Hollywood City Council members John D’Amico and Lindsey Horvath. He has never publicly commented on Moore, but his lawyer called the young man’s death “accidental” and “unfortunate.”
Communications strategist Jasmyne Cannick announced plans for a rally at Buck’s home on Monday evening at 7 p.m. on Twitter.
There will be a call to action at 7P today in front of Ed Bucks home at 1234 Laurel Avenue in West Hollywood re the death/murder of ANOTHER Black man at Ed Bucks.
Cannick mentioned Moore in an op-ed about her campaign to be a delegate for California’s Democratic party. She believes the party is in the midst of a morality crisis.
“That’s not the kind of political party I want to belong to. One that sees the lives of Black people as being expendable. As Black Democrats, that is not the type of return we expect on our years of investing in the Democratic Party with our votes,” she wrote. “If Gemmel Moore had been a white male or female — I seriously doubt the Party leadership would have been able to sweep it under the rug the way they so carelessly and deliberately did.”
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This is going to require I go to Seattle and stay overnight for a D&E.
I don’t have medicaid, and have no way to apply for it before hand, as I have no proof of residency in the state of Washington, since I just moved here 3 months ago, and have no bills in my name.
This means I will probably have to pay out of pocket for a hotel stay, and whatever my parents insurance won’t cover. (I’m not sure if they’ll cover anything, but I’m going to try and bill through them to buy some time.)
So, I need the funds to cover an overnight hospital stay in Seattle, all of the medical care I’ve received from the obgyn here in BH, and the abortion in Seattle.
I’m not going to estimate those costs, off the top of my head other than the hotel stay.
The overnight hotel stay alone will probably cost me a minimum of $100. They require I stay in a hotel within 30 minutes of the clinic in case something goes wrong during the overnight dilation, so that price may vary. I’ll be calling them tomorrow, after I take some more time to, be able to say this stuff aloud without. Crying.
I’d appreciate any help you can give at this time, and I’ll update this post with a cost estimate once I get one.
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EDIT: Oh my God thank you all so much! I have 200 so I should be able to cover the hotel room, now I just need money to cover my medical bills.
According to the paperwork my doctor gave me the abortion clinic I’m going to has a sliding fee scale, so it should be manageable. I’m unsure of the costs from my obgyn clinic and the clinic I went to last month though. I’ll update again when I get those bills and an estimate from the clinic in Seattle.
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