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She had so many basketball games, road trips and HBCU homecomings ahead of her. Johns, executive director of the NBJC, a leading national civil rights organization. The fact that police officers potentially sought to weaponize Mikayla’s sexuality in addition to abdicating the responsibility they have to investigate her murder saddens and enrages me,” said David J. “The way that we come into our sexual identities is deeply personal and young people, in particular, deserve the protection and support required to find complete comfort in who they are and how they show up in the world. Other organization officials had also issued similar statements and support a few days prior. We must address it swiftly, seek accountability and work relentlessly for change.” Anti-Black and anti-LGBTQ violence and discrimination destroys lives and devastates communities. She was a much-loved and cherished child in all of her many dimensions. Strothers said at the vigil and rally yesterday, Mikayla’s LGBTQ status was known. Such an allegation is appalling,” Said GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders Senior Staff Attorney Polly Crozier via a statement on May 7. “Miller’s mother has stated that police told her not to go to the media because doing so would out her daughter as LGBTQ. A press release by the National Black Justice Coalition, NBJC, stated that Strothers emphasized that a case involving a white child in Mikayla’s position would have received immediate attention. According to Strothers, the police showed little interest in investigating Mikayla’s death and threatened Strothers with exposing her daughter’s sexuality publically if she reported the matter to the media. The town is about 30 miles west of Boston and is known as the place where the Boston Marathon starts each year. Strothers remembered her daughter and wants answers from a town known to be affluent and whose population of 15K - according to the Census 2010 - is mostly white.
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The body of Mikayla Miller, 16, was found hanging from a tree on April 18 in her suburban hometown, one day after her mother, Calvina Strothers, said she was jumped by a group of five white teenagers. The rally was led by former City Councilor Tito Jackson and Violence in Boston’s Monica Cannon-Grant, according to WBZ Boston. MASSACHUSETTS-Today, hundreds of people rallied while chanting “say her name” and holding signs reading “Black Lives Matter” once again for a black life taken in the country, this time it was for a Black LGBTQ+ teenager from Hopkinton, Massachusetts. UPDATED: The Horrible Death of Mikayla Miller, a Black LGBTQ+ youth, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts & The Role of a Biased System - Adds GLAD’s Statement & Call To Action