In 2025, Miracle Boyd was hit with a racist death threat calling for her to “be hanged from a tree” one day after Chicago approved a $280,000 settlement for the 2020 police assault that knocked out her front tooth. The typed letter, mailed to her organization’s West Englewood office, didn’t stop at threats, it also called Mayor Brandon Johnson the n-word and referenced a bizarre scene from the 1983 movie Trading Spaces to dehumanize him.
According to The Triibe, Boyd, who was seven months pregnant at the time of the threat, told reporters the timing felt like a political attack, especially since the FBI under Kash Patel had shifted focus toward investigating groups like Black Lives Matter instead of right-wing extremists. The settlement itself was contentious. The City Council approved it 34-15 on March 12, 2025, but not before Ald. Nicholas Sposato argued Boyd didn’t deserve the payout.
