“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?
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Ryan, in a press conference on May 4, denied claims that her office was not investigating the case. She said investigators had questioned several witnesses, including the teens who were allegedly involved in a fight with Miller on April 17.
Ryan said Miller got into a fight with one teenage boy and one teenage girl. Ryan also said all five teens who were present that night were not in the area where Miller’s body was found, based on witness, video and electronic evidence.
During a rally that drew several hundred people on May 6 in downtown Hopkinton, Strothers said: Given everything that has transpired over the past few weeks, I want to make sure that I am clear about my goals in all of this: It s to have full transparency and get justice for my daughter.”