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ED BUCK TRIAL UPDATE: Alrighty fam! Court resumes at 9 a.m. Here’s a recap of yesterday’s testimony.

Ed Buck Trial: Day Two
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It’s clear that Christopher Darden and Ludlow Creary’s defense of Ed Buck involves weaponizing his victim’s HIV status. Darden and Ludlow are fixated on AIDS and making sure the jury has a negative connotation when they hear it.

The only relevance HIV has in this trial is the fact that Ed Buck is HIV positive and according to his victims, specifically asked them of their status and knew that they were positive when he did what he did to them. But the defense doesn’t want to talk about that.

Ed Buck’s next-door neighbor was asked on cross by Christopher Darden whether or not the people he said he saw in a stupor leaving Ed Buck’s apartment could not have been under the influence of drugs, but just had AIDS.

Every HIV and AIDS advocacy organization in America needs to be issuing statements condemning Darden and Ludlow for weaponizing HIV and AIDS in this trial.

And don’t think for one moment the irony is lost on me that Ed Buck’s attorneys, Christopher Darden and Ludlow Creary, are weaponizing HIV and AIDS for the benefit of their white HIV positive client against his Black gay victims.

Jurors were shown photos of dog collars used for training dogs that emit an electrostatic shock.

Det. Martindale was asked if he found a dog while searching Ed Buck’s apartment.  

He did not.

Ed Buck picked the men he did for a reason.

These men went through hell literally just to be off the street for a night.