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发帖数: 2047 | 1 Elderlycoupleforcedoutofhomeaftertweet claimskillerofTrayvonMartinlivesthere
Published March 28, 2012 | NewsCore
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 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.
Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot and killed Martin in a
Sanford gated community on Feb. 26, with emotions and anger running at fever
pitch while he remains free.
William Zimmerman said he used his mother and stepfather's address to
register a car, get a drivers license and vote when he lived there after
college.
"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.
"To endanger people who are innocent because people are angry is not the
answer. That's not how we're going to heal. It's not [going] to help the
Martin family for someone else to be hurt."
The tweets were traced back to a man in California and William Zimmerman
pleaded with him to stop.
The man responded, "Black power all day. No justice, no peace" along with an
obscenity.
The original tweet containing the address was also reportedly retweeted by
director Spike Lee to his almost 250,000 followers. | y****t
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: Elderlycoupleforcedoutofhomeaftertweet claimskillerofTrayvonMartinlivesthere
: Published March 28, 2012 | NewsCore
: 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 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.
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