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Death threats, verbal harassment and social media vitriol. The family of Hopkinton’s Mikayla Miller says they’re paying a significant emotional price as they continue to publicly pursue an independent and transparent probe of the teen’s April 18 death. For Easton’s Henry family, Framingham’s Stephanie Deeley, and several other families across New England, the cost of public pressure is all too familiar. The Miller case has not only brought them back to their early days of being in the spotlight, but has reminded them of how they’re still paying a similar price months or years into their own quest for justice. ....
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“The truth of the matter is, if we didn’t apply pressure nothing would’ve happened,” Monica Cannon-Grant, an advocate who has been serving as a spokesperson for Miller’s mother Calvina Strothers, said in a video interview May 26. “We watched it happen in the George Floyd case. They were like, ‘It was a medical situation’ and they weren’t going to file any charges. People hit the streets for a whole year we protested and charges were brought.” But should it take intense pressure, protests or hashtag campaigns to increase transparency in ongoing investigations? If a family believes their loved one’s case isn’t being properly handled, or that key details are being wrongfully withheld, what happens if that family’s pleas for transparency don’t go viral? ....
Online, mug shots are forever. Some states want to change that By Lindsey Van Ness, Stateline.org Published: May 16, 2021, 2:45pm Share: The wall of shame. Lawmakers across the U.S. are moving to stop police from releasing booking photos unless the arrestee failed to appear for court, was a fugitive or was convicted. (Dreamstime/TNS) After a weekend in the Burleigh County, North Dakota, detention center last summer, Dustin Gawrylow was relieved when the state’s attorney decided not to press charges against him. Gawrylow, 38, had been in a fistfight with his brother a “brotherly scuffle,” he called it and was surprised to be arrested after going to the police to explain what happened. ....