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Moore's mother, LaTisha Nixon of Texas, has questioned whether Buck's ties to elected officials and differences in race and class influenced the investigation. Buck, who is 65 and white, is a longtime political donor, onetime West Hollywood City Council candidate and a well-known figure in LGBTQ political circles. Moore had been homeless and had worked as an escort.How is it that this screamingly obvious predator was allowed to roam free for so long? Did Democrat party connections have something to do with it?
In February, Nixon filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Buck, alleging he was a drug dealer who injected her son with a fatal dose of crystal methamphetamine.
"If the dead body of a blond-haired, blue-eyed white man was found in the home of an older black man, he'd be lucky to even make it to the police station alive," Hussain Turk, an attorney for Nixon, said in a statement at the time of the lawsuit's filing.
About 9 p.m. Tuesday, about a dozen onlookers gathered across the street from Buck's apartment building, as police redirected cars on the blocked street. It was a quiet scene, with no protest chants or signs.
"Today is like a celebration for us," said Jasmyne Cannick as she spoke to those gathered.
Cannick, a political consultant and spokeswoman for Moore's mother, said she was giving a speech in Leimert Park on Tuesday evening when she started getting calls from Buck's neighbors saying he was being arrested.
She pulled up to Buck's West Hollywood apartment building just as a police car was driving away.
Cannick has said she believed Buck got special treatment because of his political activism and fundraising for Democratic candidates, a charge officials have denied, and because he was white and Moore and Dean were black.
"I feel vindicated for all the people who said it was never going to happen," she said. "I feel really good for all the young men he took advantage of because they didn't feel like anyone took them seriously, like their lives weren't important enough for anyone to really care about."
Cannick said she called Moore's mother and Dean's sister to tell them about the arrest, and "we were all crying."
"We're just completely ecstatic," she said. "Black gay men's lives matter. The whole black LGBT community is going to be celebrating this evening because our lives matter, and people need to know that. Even if we're sex workers, even if we're on drugs, even if we're homeless, we're still part of the black community, still part of the LGBT community."
Comment: As the unipolar hegemon crumbles, the multipolar world is rising. The West can try to stop it, but it doesn't look like they'll succeed.