I’ve been thinking the same thing for months. Someone should tell Oprah that it’s more similar than Emmet Till.
There was also a Stalinist version of Trayvon Martin (Pavlik Morozov) who at age 14 ratted out his family for “hoarding grain” and was killed by his own grandfather with an axe, and became a hero of the CCCP with pioneer lagers named for him....
This is the best analogy, the punk turned martyr.