Mitchell Miller was fired from the Boston Bruins earlier this week.
For several years he harassed and harassed a disabled classmate.
“He threw food in my face. I was called to the N-word every day,” victim Isaiah Meyer-Kruthers said.
Last week, the NHL club Boston Bruins made a very controversial signing when they awarded a contract to Mitchell Miller.
Controversial in that when he was 14 years old, he was convicted in juvenile court for bullying and molesting a disabled fellow African American.
The Bruins pounced just days later and released the player.
The man who bullied him, Isaiah Meyer-Crothers, released a statement Wednesday via the Hockey Diversity Alliance.
“He hit me on the head”
Miller and another colleague terrorized Meyer Crothers with physical violence and racial slurs for several years.
“I’ve been bullied since I was six. There weren’t many black kids in my school. Many kids said that my black dad and mom didn’t like me, that’s why I had both white parents. Mitchell used to ask me to sit next to him on the bus and then He and his friends hit me on the head.This happened throughout my school days, and victim Meyer Crothers testified in her statement.
“He threw food in my face. I was called N-word every day. The school told me to stay away from him because he wasn’t my friend.”
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At one point, Miller and his friend also allegedly forced a disabled classmate to lick a candy bar they had first dipped in a urinal.
“He pretended to be my friend and made me do things I didn’t want to do. In middle school I got hit by the hand”
Mitchell has since apologized for his actions and claimed he was working on himself to become a better person. The apology to Meyer-Crothers came recently, via an announcement on Snapchat.
Mitchell is not my friend. It hurts my heart what he did to me. So I just wanted to tell everyone – when Mitchell says we’re friends, it’s not true. I can’t take any more of this,” Meyer Crothers concludes in his statement.