Task force: DOJ should investigate foster teen’s death

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A community task force is calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the death of a Black teenager who was restrained facedown for more than 30 minutes at a Kansas juvenile detention center. Sedgwick County Commission Chairman David Dennis said last month that he was told by county Sheriff Jeff Easter that the FBI requested all information regarding the death of 17-year-old Cedric Lofton. The FBI is part of the Justice Department. But the task force wasn’t certain about the investigation because its members only knew about it secondhand and they wanted to add their voices to those asking for an investigation, said member Jazmine Rogers, an organizer with the Wichita-based youth civil rights group Progeny.