The Bruins made the controversial decision to sign 20-year-old defenseman Mitchell Miller to an entry-level contract on Friday.
Miller pleaded guilty in an Ohio juvenile court in 2016 on charges of assault and a violation of the Ohio Safe Schools Act after he and a classmate were accused of racially motivated bullying of a developmentally disabled Black classmate, Isaiah Meyer-Crothers. Miller and the classmate reportedly forced Meyer-Crothers to eat a piece of candy that had been in a urinal while repeatedly calling him a racial slur, with surveillance video showing that Miller kicked and punched Meyer-Crothers as well.