http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-zimmerman-tweets-trayvon-martins-body_560965b1e4b0dd85030846e5

George Zimmerman incited a slew of backlash on Sunday when he retweeted a photo of the body of Travyon Martin, the unarmed black teenager he shot and killed in February 2012.

The photo, showing the 17-year-old Martin lying dead in the grass, was posted by Twitter user @SeriousSlav, who included the caption “Z-Man is a one man army,” Raw Story reports.

Zimmerman's brother, Robert, confirmed to The Huffington Post that George Zimmerman's account, @TherealGeorgeZ, is authentic.

Twitter deleted the tweet shortly afterwards, according to the New York Daily News, but Zimmerman’s account remains filled with plenty of disturbing tweets, including one that reads “Cops lives matter, black slime doesnt [sic]”.

Zimmerman's Twitter account made headlines last month when he referred to President Barack Obama as an “ignorant baboon.”

Perfectly ok person who has never even been accused of an crimes ever exept of course

-Abusing his wife a Thug™
-Pointing a gun at his ex girlfreind a Thug™
-assaulting yet another girlfreind Thug™ with a wine bottle
-getting mad at another driver Thug™ and telling him "I'm George Zimmerman, i'll fucking kill you"
-Stalking an unarmed teenager Thug™ and then killing him under circumstances that were ambiguous at best
-Tweeting a picture of said corpse Thug™ years later (Not at all fucking creepy)
-Regularly outing himself as a blatant biggot

This man is clearly an upstanding paragon of humanity who is just under attack from liberal Thugs™ who just want to take muh gunz and froce me to gay marry a Muslim. This man is completely trustworthy and deserving of the ability to carry a lethal firearm.

Can't flim flam the zim zam

So is this thread just going to instantly devolve into shitty and increasingly irrelevant meme posting? awesome.  :/

Does anyone actually not think the guy's a huge asshole? His case was technically self defense but he was obviously culpable for inciting the whole thing.

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on September 28, 2015, 06:06:36 PM

Does anyone actually not think the guy's a huge asshole? His case was technically self defense but he was obviously culpable for inciting the whole thing.

The narrative that zimmerman wuz a gud boi he didnu nuffin is pretty popular in circles in my home town.

Yeah but don't you live in Feyetnam?

I don't care who started the altercation

The law does.

Quote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 28, 2015, 07:03:22 PM

Quote from: spewky bewgie on September 28, 2015, 07:02:10 PM

I don't care who started the altercation

The law does.

The law has gotten shit wrong before.

They didn't this time.

Quote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 28, 2015, 07:06:30 PM

Quote from: spewky bewgie on September 28, 2015, 07:04:51 PM

Quote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 28, 2015, 07:03:22 PM

Quote from: spewky bewgie on September 28, 2015, 07:02:10 PM

I don't care who started the altercation

The law does.

The law has gotten shit wrong before.

They didn't this time.

Opinions are a great thing.

Some are, yours aren't.

Quote from: A E S T H E T I C S on September 28, 2015, 07:08:28 PM

Can you at least concede that Trayvon going to pound town on Zimmerman was not in the slightest bit warranted, regardless of whether he thought he was being followed or not?

If I "think" (he wasn't even 100% sure Zimmerman actually was following him by the way) I'm being followed, my first reaction isn't to go berserk and start swinging swift right hooks at my alleged stalker, and I don't think that would be most people's initial reaction either.

You also aren't a 17 year old kid. I would be freaked out if I was being stalked, and I don't question him trying to defend himself.

But I was a 17 year old kid, and I didn't go physically apeshit on people the moment I had the slightest indication they were following me. That's not a normal reaction. No rational person does that. Even most adolescents.

What self defense are you talking about? No injuries were found on his body with the exception of the the gunshot wound and his knuckle contusions that demonstrate he initiated the assault.

Unless you're now telling me that Zimmerman followed him just to physically attack his, hands?

Oh, you were followed, on a dark rainy night, when you were 17? Or 18? Please, continue to share.

I've had suspicions about mysterious figures at night. I've never been approached though, and I wouldn't start laying uppercuts into someone that I thought might've (key word there) been stalking me. If I genuinely think my life is in danger I run, or call the police, just like any sane person would.

All I'm doing is illustrating that just because you have a slight inkling that someone may or may not be following you does not automatically give you the right to assault them. That's not 'self defence' like you keep trying to paint it out as. Like at all.

And you can drop the condescending tone too, thanks. You know full well that hitting someone for supposedly 'following' you is not an appropriate response. It's not something either of us would think of doing.

Again, the kid was being followed. What's he going to do, keep walking home without knowing who is following him and lead him to where he lives?

Confronting and then subsequently attacking him isn't something that's going to aid a dangerous situation that he allegedly thought he was in either. Again, you call the police, or you flee.

Was Zimmerman going to stop there and assume that Martin wasn't breaking in?

I don't know what was going through either person's head at the time, and I don't think anybody will ever get to know.

That still isn't a viable justification for what Trayvon did.

The only reason Zimmerman got acquitted was being of a prosecution trumping up the charges (Manslaughter would have been fine),  and Zimmerman being the only living soul who witnessed the entire night and lived to actually give his account. Do not fake that to act like he was innocent - if he had sat in his car like he was told to, a teenager wouldn't be dead, this moron would not have his five seconds of fame, and we could move on with our lives without giving a shit.

He was discharged because there was a significant lack of evidence that he ever initiated the fight, actually. In fact, all evidence points to Trayvon.

We can sit around here and contemplate the "what ifs" until the cows come home. The fact of the matter is Trayvon started something that ended up getting himself killed. No two ways about it.

If Trayvon was indeed beating the shit out of Zimmerman it's not hard to see why.
Fact is he was alone, unarmed and he had someone following him. It's not unimaginable that he was scared for his life and fight or flight instincts kicked in.