In a message posted on Facebook, 22 June 2015, Olympic Great Billy Mills stated:
“The Leonard Peltier trial continues to cast a dark shadow upon our legal system in the United States of America and in the honor of justice and Leonard Peltier, the cry for his freedom must never cease.”
“Billy” Mills, also known as Makata Taka Hela, is the second Native American (after Jim Thorpe) to win an Olympic gold medal.