CFL Khalif Mitchell TORONTO, ON – AUGUST 17: Jalil Carter #19 of the Toronto Argonauts talks with Khalif Mitchell #96 of the BC Lions as he points out someone in the stands during their game at Rogers Centre on August 17, 2014 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Dave Sandford/Getty Images)

Wednesday, the Saskatchewan Roughriders announced that Khalif Mitchell had signed with their practice roster. Normally, a player signing to a practice roster wouldn’t be news in the United States, especially when the signing happens in the CFL. But Mitchell is…a little different.

Mitchell was served a two game suspension back in 2012 for hyperextending an opponent’s arm. But more notably, he was fined by the BC Lions that same year for racist tweets using the word “chink”, and was released by Montreal last year after B’Nai Brith Canada pointed out his retweets of a Holocaust denial documentary, and described some of his tweets as, “bizarre postings and outlandish conspiracy theories, comparisons of police officers to the Ku Klux Klan and hateful videos denying the Holocaust.”

Even though he issued an apology and said he’d be working with the group to educate himself, some of his tweets from recent months haven’t shown much progress in that regard.

(screencapped tweets via Yahoo)

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Mitchell has also posted conspiracy theories on Twitter about Hillary Clinton’s health, robbing Haiti, and in what’s probably the weirdest, suggesting that the Illuminati and Satanists are conducting human sacrifices near the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

It would not be surprising for B’Nai Brith and many other organizations to raise concerns about Mitchell’s social media activity once again, but whether anything substantial is done about this remains to be seen.

[Yahoo]

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