Why did a court issue a restraining order against Ezra Miller to protect an 18-year-old activist?


Over the past few months Ezra Miller, the actor who played the Justice League superhero the Flash,

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has had more than his share of run-ins with the law.

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The most recent saw a Massachusetts court grant

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the mother of a 12-year-old a temporary protection order on behalf of her child.

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Another court in South Dakota issued a similar order protecting the Iron Eyes family,

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including their 18-year-old nonbinary daughter Tokata Iron Eyes a Standing Rock activist.

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They now go by the name of Gibson and have been traveling with Miller for several months.

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Miller now 29 years old, met the now 18-year-old Standing Rock activist when Gibson was just 8.

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The two first met in 2012 during the anti-Dakota Access Pipeline protests when

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