Petito case renews call to spotlight missing people of color

Seraphine Warren poses for a photo in her home in Tooele, Utah, on Sept. 23, 2021, with a rug made by her aunt, Navajo rug weaver Ella Mae Begay. Begay, 62, disappeared in June, one of thousands of missing Indigenous women across the U.S. The extensive coverage of the Gabby Petito case is renewing calls to also shine a spotlight on missing people of color.

“I would have liked that swift rush, push to find my aunt faster. That’s all I wish for,” said Warren, who lives in Utah, one of several states Petito and boyfriend Brian Laundrie passed through. While authorities haven’t confirmed the video led to the discovery, the vast open spaces of the American West can bedevil search parties for years and anything that narrows the search grid is welcome. Public pressure can also ensure authorities prioritize a case.

So far, authorities have no answers for Caridad’s parents. Twice a week, Enrique Caridad heads to the police station for any updates on his daughter. David Robinson moved from South Carolina to Arizona temporarily to search for his son, Daniel, who disappeared in June. The 24-year-old Black geologist was last seen at a work site in Buckeye, outside Phoenix. A rancher found his car in a ravine a month later a few miles away. His keys, cellphone, wallet and clothes were also recovered. But no sign of him.

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Everything is a f*cking thing now.

Thanks for finally sharing what these grieving families have to say. The real question is what do YOU have to say? When are you going to actually start covering cases of missing people of color the same way you did for Gabby Petito? Where are the stories to humanize them?

That’s just BS

i saw this inequality reported by cnn just below about 5 headlines about Petito. tad hypocritical

It is not true. Discovery channel, for example, has several missing people shows, of all races.

chipfoxx I could reveal horrible things about human sacrifices with the younger nations...

White mass shooters also get too much attention. We need to start focusing on BIPOC mass shooters in the media.

Yes, we are aware that our media reporting is garbage

um, this has been going on for decades….everytime a pretty, white woman goes missing, there’ll be tons of stories about why people of color dont get the same type of media attention when they go missing….

Bounties offered by some states to out women who seek abortion while thousands of missing women go ignored. Only in the USA.

Nothing to do with race or skin color and everything to do with 'celeb' status that social media gives average people , who put their lives on public display like Gabby & BF did .

Well after what people witnessed with riots , scum bag Floyd, looting , stealing , You really think people will care about your destructive race. We don’t.

So AP is claiming that, because the AP ignored missing people of color they brought more attention to them?

1/2 People of colour are devalued on a constant basis, our lives matter! However when there is a missing person case very little in the line of police resources are used. This is the exact reason why we were trying to create a missing and homicide case

Look!The media complaining about the media!!😀😀

Looks like AP has problem using labels first call for the missing 'people of color' and then talks about authorities neglect of investigating missing American Indians? Yeah, racism is every where. But we're NOT racists right?

Personally I'm sick of hearing about her. Condolences to her family but enough is enough.

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