“An elderly couple in Sanford, Florida is now living in fear after multiple people including director Spike Lee incorrectly tweeted their address as that of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman, who is in hiding.
70-year-old Elaine McClain has a son named William George Zimmerman, who lived with her in 1995 and has no relation to the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed the unarmed Miami teen February 26, reports the Orlando Sentinel.
Elaine and her husband David McClain told Orlando's Local 6 that they received a letter addressed to George Zimmerman on Monday that read "taste the rainbow" in reference to the Skittles Martin was reportedly holding when he was shot.
The Sentinel reported that the McClains have since relocated to a hotel to avoid any more backlash.
The Smoking Gun traced the original tweet to Marcus Davonne Higgins, a 33-year-old Los Angeles Twitter user who tweeted the incorrect address for "George W. Zimmerman" Friday with the message, "Everybody repost this."
Director Spike Lee, who has been outspoken about the Martin shooting, retweeted the address to his 240,000 followers. The tweet has since been removed, and Lee was unavailable for comment to the Hollywood Reporter…” The Huffington Post
I had some video on YouTube about the Trayvon Martin / Zimmerman shooting. The one video got over 900 comments and most of those comments were people saying that Zimmerman was guilty of murder and they wanted him dead. Many of the comments said that someone would kill him. Some of them said they would kill Zimmerman if they could. Many of the comments wanted death for me and members of my family!
So I can not believe that Spike Lee, a very smart man and a “credit to his race”, would have done something like he did. That is super racist of him. I am not sure it is a crime. I think it should be a hate crime. He was posting the location of Zimmerman, of course it was the wrong person and the wrong address, and he did that knowing that there were people saying they would kill Zimmerman.
I am not sure what action can be taken against Spike Lee. I love many of his movies. But what he did was so wrong that I am just in a rage about it. But I do not know what can be done about it.
Spike Lee could have gone someone killed. I am not sure how you punish Spike Lee for his crazy action. The people could take him to court and win a little bit of money but it is not going to hurt Spike Lee. They could not win enough to hurt Spike Lee.
I guess I will just have to make sure that I never watch one of his movies again. I know that is not going to have any effect but I will do my little part.
What he did was very wrong. He is a very racist person. He is a very evil person to do something like that. It is just as if he had put out a contract to have someone murdered. Shame on Spike Lee.
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