NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Activists and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana are calling for an independent investigation into the death of a Black 15-year-old whose body was found days after he was reported missing.
Quawan Charles’ body was found Nov. 3 in Iberia Parish, where the sheriff’s office is investigating his death as a possible homicide.
Civil rights attorney Ron Haley and the ACLU say authorities in two parishes have provided little information to the family. A fundraising page is topped by post-death photographs’ of Charles’ face and that of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was lynched in 1955.
Haley says he doesn’t know whether damage to Charles’ face was caused by violence or decay.