Patrice Bergeron was “on the fence” when he heard the Bruins signed Mitchell Miller – a 20-year-old defenseman with a controversial past and poor reputation – to an entry-level contract.
Miller bullied a developmentally disabled Black classmate, Isaiah Meyer-Crothers, in middle school. He reportedly forced him to eat a piece of candy that had been in a urinal while repeatedly calling him a racial slur, and surveillance video showed him kicking and punching Meyer-Crothers in the crotch as well.
Miller also reportedly told him to “go pick their cotton” and called him both “brownie” and the “N-word.