Ed Buck was convicted in overdose deaths of two black men; Organizer of protests in Ed Buck s case Jasmyne Cannick reacts on Fox News Primetime
Political commentator and Los Angeles County Democratic committeemember Jasmyn Cannick called out her own party as well as the media for their silence over the conviction of Edward Buck, a prominent Democratic donor from Los Angeles on Fox News Primetime.
convicted Tuesday of two drug overdose deaths and injecting men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex, in what prosecutors said was a pattern of luring Black men into his apartment as part of a sexual fetish.
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Democratic political donor Ed Buck was convicted Tuesday of two drug overdose deaths and injecting men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex, in what prosecutors said was a pattern of luring Black men into his Los Angeles area apartment as part of a sexual fetish.
Buck, who contributed more than $500,000 to Democratic groups since 2000, was convicted on nine federal charges, including two counts of distribution of controlled substances resulting in death, in connection to the July 2017 death of Gemmel Moore and the January 2019 death of Timothy Dean.
Ed Buck found guilty on all counts for giving meth to 2 men who died in his WeHo apartment
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Ed Buck’s trial centers on alleged injection fetish
The men Ed Buck lured to his apartment for party and play found themselves in a situation of life and death, prosecutors said.
LOS ANGELES - A jury has reached its verdict in the trial of former political donor Ed Buck, who is accused of providing methamphetamine to two men who died in his West Hollywood apartment.
The jury found Buck guilty on all nine felony counts, including two counts of distribution of controlled substances resulting in death, stemming from the deaths of Gemmel Moore in July 2017 and Timothy Dean in January 2019.
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - After just 4 1/2 hours of deliberations, former political donor Ed Buck was convicted today of a series of federal charges, including providing methamphetamine to two men who died in his West Hollywood apartment.
Buck was convicted of all nine felony counts he was facing. The verdicts came on the four-year anniversary of the death of one of the two victims, 26-year-old Gemmel Moore, in Buck s apartment. As each guilty verdict was read aloud by the judge, family members and friends of the dead men applauded and hugged.
“We had a serial killer on the streets of West Hollywood for years, Samuel Lloyd, Moore s former roommate and best friend, said outside the courthouse. “But nobody cared. We have to start standing up before it ever gets to this point again.
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