Families of missing Black men say they 'want the same manpower' from police on Petito case
Source: NBC News through AOL
David Robinson hired a private investigator and has traversed the Arizona desert with volunteers in search of his 24-year-old son, Daniel, a geologist who went missing in late June.
Rasheda Smith in Aurora, Colorado, said she didn’t hear from police for more than a week after she reported that her teen stepson, Xavion, had run away earlier this month.
Robinson, Smith and relatives of Jelani "JJ" Day, an Illinois State University graduate student who has not been seen since August, all have something in common: They're Black people who are exasperated after pleading with authorities to do more to find their loved ones.
Their frustration with law enforcement intensified as stories about the disappearance of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old white woman, dominated the national news cycle, the result, some say, of “missing white woman syndrome.” Gwen Ifill, the legendary news anchor, coined that term in 2004 to underscore the news media’s fascination with white women who go missing.
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Yeah, this would be good. I guess when Republicans and cop apologists scream "All Lives Matter," it's double speak for "All people are created equal, but some are more equal than others."
Added to this, we don't even record how many Native American women disappear.
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The New York Times, ABC, NBC, CNN and Fox News, among other outlets, produced timelines of her case. National news outlets, including MSNBC, USA Today and the Washington Post, analyzed different parts of her case, including police reports, body cam footage, the search for her fiancé and details of where her remains were found. Other outlets scoured smaller details, analyzing Petito's "van life" videos, her Instagram and her Spotify playlist.
With national media attention came public outrage. People nationwide became fascinated with Petito's case, and TikTok users turned to social media trying to solve it.
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The disproportionately high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous people is a nationwide crisis, and experts say Montana is an epicenter. Indigenous people in Montana are four times more likely to go missing than non-Native people, according to a state Department of Justice report. As of Sept. 15, Indigenous people accounted for 31% of the state's active missing persons population, though they comprise about 6.7% of Montana's population.
https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2021/09/23/gabby-petito-indigenous-people-point-out-disparities-missing-white-woman-syndrome-mmiw/5827651001/
Except the ones who don't 
