Shortly after their chief executive was selected to an NHL committee assembled to fight racism in the sport, the Arizona Coyotes used their first draft pick in the 2020 NHL Draft on an 18-year-old who has “admitted to bullying an African American classmate with developmental disabilities,” according to Craig Harris and Jose M. Romero of the Arizona Republic.
Isaiah Meyer-Crothers, the victim in this case, told the Republic that he was “stunned and saddened” when he found out the Coyotes drafted Mitchell Miller in the fourth round. The two grew up together in Sylvania, Ohio.
According to the report, Miller admitted four years ago in an Ohio juvenile court to bullying Meyer-Crothers, who was allegedly tricked into licking a candy push pop that Miller and another boy had wiped in a bathroom urinal.