Elderly couple forced out of home after tweet claims killer of Trayvon Martin lives there

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via FoxNews.com
3/28/2012

SANFORD, Fla –  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.

When William Zimmerman pleaded with the man who tweeted the address, the man responded, “Black power all day. No justice, no peace” along with an obscenity…

The article continues at FoxNews.com

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Update: “I want to know why these parents of a dead black juvenile delinquent get a hearing in congress in less than a week and we have been trying for 5 years on the paper work and real truths of the trials and UCMJ [Uniform Code of Military Justice] of the Leavenworth service members ?” — Timothy Harrington

H/T Patriots for America

CAJ noteMarine Sgt. Harrington has been an advocate for service members imprisoned at Leavenworth, including Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins and Lt. Col. Terry Lakin.

Update 2: The wait is over: Ann Coulter on Trayvon Martin™

As it happens, Trayvon Martin wasn’t shot by a white man either, but by George Zimmerman, a mixed-race Hispanic who lives in a diverse (47 percent white) gated community and tutors black kids.

Since the cat leapt out of the bag on Zimmerman being Hispanic, the media have begun calling him a “white Hispanic.”…

Also, Spike Lee Apologizes After Placing Elderly Florida Couple’s Lives in Danger, and George Zimmerman Police Surveillance Video

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