Others who had planned to testify against Buck, who was convicted this week in the overdose deaths of two Black men in his apartment, couldn’t bring themselves to do it. Victims — mostly young Black men whom Buck paid to let him inject them with methamphetamine in his West Hollywood apartment — said they felt like no one cared what happened to them. “Even if you take the ‘Democratic donor’ part out of it, you have a white man who lives in West Hollywood, and you have these Black victims who are sex workers. It was only in September 2019, after Brown, who is Black, nearly died of an overdose, that Buck was arrested. “He became obsessed with it.”After Brown fled Buck’s apartment that September, he feared he would not be believed.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 30, 2021 12:02 UTC