Families of missing Black men plead for more resources and accountability from police. “I want the same manpower for my brother,” said D’Andre Day, whose brother went missing in Illinois on Aug. 24.
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.
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, ofGwen Ifill, the legendary news anchor, coined that term in 2004 to underscore the news media’s fascination with white women who go missing.
Robinson, Smith and the Day family told NBC News it has been painful to witness the disparities between the cases of their loved ones and“The same manpower they gave her, I want the same manpower for my brother,” D’Andre Day, 28, said. Two days later, his white Chrysler 300 was found abandoned in the woods about 60 miles north of Bloomington in Peru, Illinois, officials said. Clothes that he wore on the day he was last seen were found inside his car, according to police.
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