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Activist and donor to democrats. he's given more than $116,000 to democratic candidates and groups over the last ten year, including to the presidential campaigns of barack obama, hillary clinton and john kerry. he will be arraigned later today, we are told, and prosecutors are recommending that bail for buck be set at $4 million. harris? >> harris: jonathan, real quickly, i have been reading that relatives are really concerned that this arrest took so long. >> reporter: yeah. the relatives of gemelle moore filed a wrongful death lawsuit. they're all very concerned about los angeles authoritie...

Lbgtq people of color are victimized. and when you lie about it, what you do is put all of their stories at risk. just think about the case of ed buck who is the dnc super donor who was killed two black men and there has been no investigation. >> absolutely. >> think about the impact on people gay, lesbian, by sexual, transgender and queer. >> martha: i want to play this clip from van jones. >> this is the fall of an icon. i don't think people understand how important he had been in the black community. to say have him as a beloved character, i think did a great deal to knock back homophobia i...

He was on a show that's fairly popular. a lot of young people know him. when this happened, it did sort of trigger a lot of outpouring of emotional support from a lot of different people, from a lot of different producers and television, people who worked in the entertainment industry. that's why i find it disturbing. but i also would say that if this is true, as joey rightfully pointed out, he is innocent until proven guilty. i think the saddest part about this is that he has chosen, if true, to scapegoat black queer folk who are often in the crosshairs of violence. in the last five years, ab...

Of different producers and television, people who worked in the entertainment industry. that's why i find it disturbing. but i also would say that if this is true, as joey rightfully pointed out, he is innocent until proven guilty. i think the saddest part about this is that he has chosen, if true, to scapegoat black queer folk who are often in the crosshairs of violence. in the last five years, about 128 transgendered people have been killed. the vast majority of them have been black women. you have higher incidents of suicide from lgbtq teens, from young people. just in the past year, we've ...

To die inside ed buck's west hollywood home. jamal moore, a male escort overdosed on and petted me, there was not enough to charge m with a crime, but in a journal entry he wrote "i have become addicted to drugs, and the worse one at that, ed buck is the one to think, he gave me my first injection of crystal, it was very painful, but after all of the troubles ie family has released a statement saying if a young white man was found dead in a wealthy black man's apartment with syringes all around, that black man would've been handcuffed and taken directly to jail. and protesters outside ed buck'...