{"id":70637,"date":"2020-02-12T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/11\/the-wrong-thing-spike-lees-retweet-of-george-zimmermans-address-making-the-rounds-again\/"},"modified":"2020-02-12T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:37:14","slug":"spike-lees-retweet-of-george-zimmermans-address-making-rounds-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/70637","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee’s retweet of George Zimmerman’s ‘address’ making rounds&nbsp;again"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/parva_x\/status\/355420907470196736\n<p>The prosecution has been trying its best to portray George Zimmerman as an out-of-control “wannabe cop,” which has again inspired some wannabe vigilantes to pass around Zimmerman’s home address on Twitter coupled with thinly&nbsp;veiled&nbsp;threats. Making a bad situation worse is that they’re still passing around the wrong address, which director Spike Lee twice&nbsp;retweeted to hundreds of thousands of followers last spring.<\/p>\n<p>That little mixup led to an elderly couple being driven from their home. Lee eventually settled with the couple, but that hasn’t made the errant tweet disappear, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/07\/11\/Spike-Lee-s-2012-Tweet-of-Incorrect-Address-of-Zimmerman-Haunts-Elderly-Couple-Again\">as Breitbart.com points out<\/a>, with a verdict in the case imminent, the address is being distributed again, and Sanford police have stepped up patrols around the house.<\/p>\n<p>Here’s a screenshot of the most recent tweets with the address redacted, but with the ridiculous #Justice hashtag left intact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisistwitchy.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/george-zimmerman-address-blur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201265\" alt=\"Twitter \/ Search - george w. zimmerman 32773\" src=\"http:\/\/thisistwitchy.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/george-zimmerman-address-blur.jpg?w=430&#038;h=802\" width=\"430\" height=\"802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That settlement likely frees Lee from commenting further on the mistake which might have put the lives of the couple in danger. Did it free his conscience as well?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TexasRPhJD\/status\/355454085182406657\n<p>Editor’s note: Twitchy has replaced the original screen shot with one that’s been further blurred.<\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/11\/the-wrong-thing-spike-lees-retweet-of-george-zimmermans-address-making-the-rounds-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/11\/the-wrong-thing-spike-lees-retweet-of-george-zimmermans-address-making-the-rounds-again\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/parva_x\/status\/355420907470196736 The prosecution has been trying its best to portray George Zimmerman as an out-of-control “wannabe cop,” which has again inspired some wannabe vigilantes to pass around Zimmerman’s home address on Twitter coupled with thinly&nbsp;veiled&nbsp;threats. Making a bad situation worse is that they’re still passing around the wrong address, which director Spike Lee twice&nbsp;retweeted to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/70637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spike Lee’s retweet of George Zimmerman’s ‘address’ making rounds&nbsp;again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":70638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/15814791507716-spike_lee.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}