Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl
As sporting teams, fans and athletes across America Monday celebrated the news Osama bin Laden had been killed, Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall was raising eyebrows with his views on the terror leader.
Through various posts on his Twitter account, Mendenhall questioned the widespread reaction of joy at bin Laden’s demise, while also expressing his doubts as to whether the public really knew the truth about 9/11.
“What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We’ve only heard one side,” Mendenhall wrote, before adding his view on the Twin Towers attack.
“We’ll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.”
Mendenhall has caused controversy via his Twitter account in the past, agreeing with Vikings’ running backAdrian Peterson’s comment that compared the NFL labor situation to slavery in the lead up to the lockout.
Speaking from the White House on Sunday, President Barack Obama confirmed bin Laden had been killed in a firefight during a US raid on a compound in Pakistan.
“I can report to the American people and to the world, that the US has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden,” the US commander-in-chief said.
The news was immediately hailed by world leaders, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, while jubilant crowds took to the streets in Washington, D.C. and New York.
-Written by NEWSCORE