UPDATE link to GoFundMe, now up over $100k, where they posted pics of their dead child in order to raise money. Unfrickingreal. LINK to GoFundMe with photos.

Kind of surprised GoFundMe is allowing this.

I don't even know what to say on this one. Teen goes missing / kid has issues / known to hang with wrong crowd / found dead with cash. Family immediately jumps to blaming the police, stating this is a lynching and race related, hires lawyers, raises $70,000 through GoFundMe, plans protests.

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An Acadiana family is raising questions over law enforcement response in the disappearance and death of 15-year-old Quawan "Bobby" Charles.

Bobby left his father's Baldwin home without permission on the afternoon of Oct. 30 with a 17-year-old friend and his friend's mother, according to a family spokesperson. The family said they reported him missing later that night after attempts to reach Bobby by phone were unsuccessful.

His body was discovered by officers in a wooded area in Loreauville on Nov. 2. The family says Bobby's father wasn't notified until Nov. 3, and his mother wasn't notified until Nov. 4.

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Black activists have issued statements asking why an Amber alert was never issued by the Baldwin Police Department and demanding transparency in the investigation, some comparing his death to a modern-day lynching.

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The family has retained civil rights attorneys Ron Haley, Dedrick Moore and Chase Trichell. In a prepared statement, the lawyers asked for the preliminary findings of the coroner as to the cause of death and answers from the Baldwin Police Department as to why an Amber Alert was never issued in the days that the teen was missing.

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"Due to the lack of transparency, collective indifference, and moral failings of law enforcement, Bobby’s family has been forced to undertake the serious financial cost and enormous emotional stress of arranging for an independent autopsy in order to get any answers about Bobby’s death," they said.

"The cost of this independent autopsy was not just financial for Bobby’s family — it has greatly worsened the grieving process by delaying when they can put their child to rest."

A GoFundMe has raised more than $70,000 in three days for Bobby's family to cover costs of an independent autopsy and burial expenses.

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The online fundraiser depicts an image of Emmett Till, the Chicago 14-year-old who was murdered by White supremists in 1955 while visiting family in Mississippi, beside the alleged photo of Bobby.

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"I can't say that it was racially motivated. I can't say that it wasn't racially motivated," said André Arceneaux, a Lafayette activist who started the GoFundMe for the Charles family. "I just know that if you look at the picture of Quawan, and you look at the picture of Emmett Till, there are a lot of similarities, and it does appear that he was lynched."

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"If Quawan was a 15-year-old White female, they would have turned the city upside down for her. It blows my mind the blatant disregard the Police Department had for the wellbeing of a Black child."

Well there you have it.

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Bobby had not lived in the town of Baldwin in St. Mary Parish for long. He moved there recently after getting involved with "the wrong crowd" in his hometown of Youngsville in Lafayette Parish, according to his family.

Hmmmm... Maybe that and not race was why he was killed?

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Bobby purchased the pit bull, which he affectionately called My Baby, a few years ago from the same 17-year-old he was seen with the day he went missing, according to Charles. The older teen and his mother are White, like most of Bobby's friends, Charles said.

Uh oh, white friends. Back to race.

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"Quawan trusted his friend of another race," Charles said. "It was somebody he thought he could trust, and now he's not here today." Charles said the family believes race was a factor in Bobby's death. Charles said they've also questioned if robbery could have been a factor after a detective told them a large amount of cash was discovered with the body.

Definitely robbery since robbers often leave the money with the person they kill.

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It would not be unusual for the teen to have $200 or $300 in cash, according to Charles, who said he often saved his allowance and was frugal with his money.

GTFO

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In the meantime, a peaceful protest is set to take place at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday outside of the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office at 300 Iberia St.

I will be glad when this protest for every damn thing deal is over. I hope they wear masks and distance.

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This post was edited on 11/11/20 at 12:03 pm