An elderly Florida couple have been forced to move into a hotel after their home address was wrongly tweeted as belonging to the man who shot teen Trayvon Martin.
The tweets were traced back to a man in California and the address was also reportedly retweeted by director Spike Lee to his almost 250,000 followers.
The couple, aged 70 and 72, have been harassed with hate mail, been hassled by media and had scared neighbors questioning them since the tweet, their son Chip Humble told the Orlando Sentinel.
Fearful for their safety, and hoping to escape the spotlight, the couple have temporarily moved to a hotel.
The confusion seems to stem from the fact the woman's son is named William George Zimmerman and he lived briefly at the address in 1995.
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Spike Lee is an idiot. Why on Earth would anyone tweet this, unless you wanted to provoke violence. Well, it is Spike Lee were are talking about.
ReplyDeleteAmen!
ReplyDeleteCriminal charges should be filed against Lee as they should again the head of the black panther street gang.
ReplyDeleteAnother example of how this has turned into one big joke.
ReplyDeleteIt's gotten to the point where people could care less about this kid's death and it's a shame.
Instead of memorializing him like civil people do, they have turned his death into a 3 ring circus.
anonymous 9:23, are you talking about our President?
ReplyDeleteThe President seeking to capitalize on the tragedy quickly started selling "hoodies" on the official website to raise campaign cash. Now if that isn't exploitation I don't know what is.
ReplyDeleteI hope they sue the hell out of spike lee
ReplyDeleteThe president on down have turned Martin's death into a mockery.
ReplyDeleteYou can't even compare the actions of some to animals because animals act more dignified.
Between the bounty, calling for riots and the high school students whose march ended up with a Walgreen's getting ransacked it is unbelievable how these people are acting.
So the president was asked a question about this and gave a response.
ReplyDeleteSome people liked the resonse and of course some people hated it.
Yet now we are saying that is comehow his fault? I don't get it.
"This is really scary, and I'm concerned for my family," William Zimmerman said. "It's scary because there are people who aren't mentally right and will take this information and run with it.
ReplyDeleteYou got that right. They are EVERYWHERE.
I don't recall anyone saying it was obammy's fault. People are saying it was a stupid thing for him to say. He and others are politicizing it and trying to benefit from it.
ReplyDeleteThis traitor not only needs to be defeated, but run out of politics altogether...perhaps even this country.
He is the worse thing to happen to this country since the depression. People had more hope and pride then then they do now.