UPDATE: Liberal activists surrounded Buck’s home last night to protest the lack of scrutiny and law enforcement action regarding the deaths:
News vans lining up in front of the West Hollywood home of Ed Buck to cover protests of the Dem donor after a second man has been found dead in his home within 18 months. pic.twitter.com/U0FteMMo0W
— Henry Goldblatt (@HenryGoldblatt) January 8, 2019
The protesters are now turning their anger towards the neighbors who live in Ed Buck’s apartment building, saying they are complicit in the deaths of the men who have died inside of his apartment. Neighbors say they’ve called police and they’re sick of Buck’s actions. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/OmkGS23Qqs
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) January 8, 2019
Dozens of people are chanting outside of political donor Ed Buck’s apartment, demanding his arrest. The 2nd death investigation is taking place here in less than 2 years. @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/rQSOVQRLS9
— Veronica Miracle (@ABC7Veronica) January 8, 2019
Protests erupt outside wealthy Democrat donor Ed Buck’s home after SECOND man dies there in 18 months https://t.co/eFdXVCysER pic.twitter.com/us1pT0yX6U
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) January 8, 2019
Original article:
Another body was found at the home of Democrat mega-donor Ed Buck, just a little over a year after a male escort died in the same apartment.
An attorney for Buck, Seymour Amster, said the unidentified victim was known to him, a “longtime friend” of over 25 years. According to Amster, the man reached out to Buck for help and began acting “in a bizarre way” when he showed up at the apartment.
Signs point to the man being high on substances according to the lawyer, though it remains to be determined if he used those substances prior to arriving as Amster suggests, or otherwise.
“As far as we’re concerned, this is an accidental death,” he claimed.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is probing the death, while Amster said his client has not been arrested as the investigation gets underway.
#DEVELOPING: A 2nd death investigation in 2 years, at prominent #democratic #donor Ed Buck’s WeHo apartment. In 2017, Gemmel Moore was found dead of an overdose. This AM, LASD says another young black man died inside Buck’s place. Buck’s attorney says it was another OD. @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/BM8h254qxi
— Veronica Miracle (@ABC7Veronica) January 8, 2019
The First Death
In July of 2017, a 27-year-old male escort, Gemmel Moore, was found dead in Buck’s apartment from what was determined to be a methamphetamine overdose.
According to Fox News, Moore’s death was originally ruled an accident, though the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office would later re-open it after finding writings in his diary implicating Buck in his drug use.
“If it didn’t hurt so bad, I’d kill myself, but I’ll let Ed Buck do it for now,” Moore wrote regarding the drug use which he pinned on the Democrat donor in previous entries.
Prosecutors had declined to file charges at the time.
Activists Angered Over the Death of a Second Black Man
Activists are dismayed over the fact that in a two-year time span, two black men have wound up dead at Buck’s residence. ABC 7 reports that they are “calling for his arrest and said this second overdose was preventable.”
“It’s clear that there’s a pattern and a practice of Ed Buck to prey on vulnerable, young black gay men who are homeless, who are HIV positive, who he can manipulate with his money – and they end up dead inside his house,” one activist claimed.
The evidence isn’t quite there to link the death to Buck as of yet and the investigation will have to play out. But these activists clearly believe where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Crowds outside Buck’s home even turned the gathering into a Black Lives Matter protest.
Dozens of people are chanting outside of political donor Ed Buck’s apartment, demanding his arrest. The 2nd death investigation is taking place here in less than 2 years. @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/rQSOVQRLS9
— Veronica Miracle (@ABC7Veronica) January 8, 2019
Buck is a Huge Hillary Donor
According to various reports, Buck has donated well over $500,000 to a host of prominent Democrats, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, former president Barack Obama, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
THIS IS INSANE
“Community activists have accused LA officials of declining to prosecute Buck in 2017 thanks to his contributions to powerful politicians like Hillary Clinton, CA gov Brown, L.A. mayor Garcetti, and numerous local W Hwood councilmembers.”https://t.co/8e4CrLV1Sc
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) January 7, 2019
Can you imagine if two different black men wound up dead at the home of a Republican donor? And those deaths resulted in Black Lives Matter protests outside that person’s residence? The mainstream media coverage would be wall-to-wall.
City Council members have requested that newly elected Sheriff Alex Villanueva put a priority on investigating the new death, according to Wehoville, while another councilmember, Lauren Meister, has pressed for the homicide division to investigate.