Posted on 07/26/2021 5:31:58 PM PDT by Libloather
The jury in the federal trial of political donor Ed Buck is set to begin deliberations on Tuesday. Buck faces charges of supplying methamphetamine that killed two men, years apart, who were at his apartment in West Hollywood. That includes 26-year-old Gemmel Moore, who died from a meth overdose in 2017. At the time, his death was ruled an accident.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies investigated the case and gave then-District Attorney Jackie Lacey several possible charges to file against Buck. She chose not to pursue charges, saying there wasn’t enough evidence. Community activists argued Buck was responsible for the deaths and sought his arrest.
Then less than two years later, Timothy Dean died from a meth overdose in Buck’s apartment. Both Moore and Dean were Black men, while Buck is white. Activists claimed that Buck’s wealth and privilege kept him from being arrested.
Then in 2019, police arrested Buck on a slew of federal and state charges, including giving methamphetamine to men, or in some cases, injecting people without their knowledge.
Why did it take so long for law enforcement to bring a case against Buck, given the circumstances of both deaths?
During the two-week trial, dozens of witnesses took to the stand, stating that they did drugs at Buck’s apartment, as well as in some cases, were injected with meth while asleep or unconscious. Prosecutors also played a number of videos that showed men doing meth in the home. That’s all according to LA Times reporter Hailey Branson-Potts.
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Go Ask Hilary
I think she’l know!
Is this a trick question?
It’s called a self-answering question.
Cease this Faggotry at once!
Having been the beneficiary of such official largess, I understand how this works. I was at work when the HR manager snuck into my cube and sat in my guest chair. He leaned forward and whispered that a black technician had “turned me in” for “politically incorrect thoughts.” Seriously. I laughed. The manager assured me that it was serious. His expression conveyed, “Hey, I can ignore one such complaint, but not two.” He said, “I recommend you never speak to him again.” (This was General Dynamics, by-the-way.)
So, if Buck had only murdered ONE guy, it would have been okay. They can ignore that. They even could have ignored a long string of dead guys. What they couldn’t ignore was that a reporter kept the story in the papers. THAT is what brought Buck before the court. Notice I didn’t say anything about “justice.” My guess is he’ll spend a few months in rehab or maybe some white collar prison where he gets to play golf every day.
My guess is the only reason the reporter was able to keep the story front and center was it was a white guy killing black men. Had it been a black political donor killing white men Buck would probably have had to hire a removal service and maybe even have his own mortuary handling the corpses.
EVADE?
Maybe they were participants.
So, how long will law enforcement evade detection?
a rare piece that includes “Hillary” in the headline, & plenty of Dem references throughout:
9 Jan 2019: Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: ‘He was fine, he did not seem inebriated.’ Hillary donor’s neighbor casts doubt on his claim that SECOND black man to die in his apartment arrived at it high on drugs
Neighbor Jackie Tepper told DailyMail.com she witnessed a man buzzing into Ed Buck’s home around midnight Monday but says he did not appear to be on drugs
The man, who later died at Buck’s West Hollywood apartment, has not been named but is described as a black male in his 50s
Buck’s attorney Seymour Amster told DailyMail.com the man had a history of ‘substance’ abuse and was showing ‘bizarre behavior’ when he arrived
Tepper said the man appeared ‘fine’ adding: ‘He wasn’t stumbling, he was buzzing the building, he was on his phone’
She admitted she was ‘used to seeing young black men coming in and out of Ed’s apartment at very odd hours’
This is the second time in 18 months that a black man has been found dead in his apartment after Gemmel More, 26, died of an apparent OD in July 2017
Jasmyne Cannick, a Democrat running for the California state assembly, claims Buck targets the vulnerable before paying them to take meth
By RYAN PARRY WEST COAST EDITOR and JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6569793/Ed-Bucks-neighbor-says-man-died-home-did-not-look-high.html
a rare piece that includes “Hillary” in the headline, & plenty of Dem references throughout:
9 Jan 2019: Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: ‘He was fine, he did not seem inebriated.’ Hillary donor’s neighbor casts doubt on his claim that SECOND black man to die in his apartment arrived at it high on drugs
Neighbor Jackie Tepper told DailyMail.com she witnessed a man buzzing into Ed Buck’s home around midnight Monday but says he did not appear to be on drugs
The man, who later died at Buck’s West Hollywood apartment, has not been named but is described as a black male in his 50s
Buck’s attorney Seymour Amster told DailyMail.com the man had a history of ‘substance’ abuse and was showing ‘bizarre behavior’ when he arrived
Tepper said the man appeared ‘fine’ adding: ‘He wasn’t stumbling, he was buzzing the building, he was on his phone’
She admitted she was ‘used to seeing young black men coming in and out of Ed’s apartment at very odd hours’
This is the second time in 18 months that a black man has been found dead in his apartment after Gemmel More, 26, died of an apparent OD in July 2017
Jasmyne Cannick, a Democrat running for the California state assembly, claims Buck targets the vulnerable before paying them to take meth
By RYAN PARRY WEST COAST EDITOR and JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6569793/Ed-Bucks-neighbor-says-man-died-home-did-not-look-high.html
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