Bruins sign player convicted of assaulting black, disabled high school classmate

The Boston Bruins have signed 2020 fourth spherical draft choose Mitchell Miller, regardless of his historical past of bullying and racism.
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The Boston Bruins signed a controversial 20-year-old defenseman, who was convicted of assaulting a black, disabled highschool classmate, to an entry-level contract on Friday.

Mitchell Miller, who was 14 on the time of the 2016 bullying scandal, tricked Isaiah Meyer-Crothers, into licking a sweet push pop that was wiped in a toilet urinal, leading to Meyer-Crothers testing for hepatitis, HIV, and STDs.

Miller was additionally accused of calling 14-year-old Meyer-Crothers “brownie” and the “N-word” whereas repeatedly beating him throughout their childhood in Toledo, Ohio, in response to the Arizona Republic.

Bruins Common Supervisor Cam Neely launched an announcement about Miller’s signing.

“Representing the Boston Bruins is a privilege we take significantly as a company,” Neely mentioned.

“Mitchell was accountable for his unacceptable habits and demonstrated his dedication to work with a number of organizations and professionals to additional his training and use his mistake as a teachable second for others.”

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Miller was drafted because the 111th choose to the Arizona Coyotes in 2020, solely to be lower inside a month due to out-lash over his historical past of bullying.

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Mitchell mentioned in the identical assertion launched by the Bruins he would proceed to coach himself and share his errors with others whereas taking part in for the group.

Initially drafted by the Arizona Coyotes in 2020, Miller has but to play within the NHL.

The crew lower ties with Miller weeks later, together with The College of North Dakota, the place the younger defenseman performed school hockeyafter scrutiny from the general public and media.

Miller spent the previous two seasons within the USHL earlier than he signed with the Bruins. The crew reportedly evaluated Miller for a number of weeks.

On Friday, in an interview with CBS Boston Information, Joni Meyer-Crothers, the mom of Isaiah, mentioned Miller had reached out to her son on Instagram per week earlier than the Bruins’ signing to apologize to him for the primary time ever.

“A few week and a half in the past, Mitchell reached out to our son on Instagram to inform him that he was sorry and that it most positively wasn’t ‘hockey-related.'”

With Submit wires