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2012/03/28 19:51:14
Subject: Spike Lee won't apologize for giving out wrong address of Zimmerman shooter
Spike lee tweets Innocent elderly couple's address as Zimmerman's even though miles away from event and unrelated. Elderly couple forced to flee their home.
Sounds like lawsuit time to me. I'd be suing him-today.
Late last week, Spike Lee re-tweeted the address of ‘George Zimmerman’ to his quarter of a million followers.
Except it was the wrong address. It was the address of an elderly Florida couple whose son... William George Zimmerman (no relation to shooter) - lived briefly there in 1995. Now the 70-year-old school cafeteria lunch lady with a heart condition and her 72-year-old husband have been forced to move out of danger into a hotel temporarily after receiving hate mail, threats, harassing visits from reporters and fearful inquiries from neighbors.
The woman’s other son Chip Humble told the Orlando Sentinel, "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 O’Reilly Factor contacted Spike Lee’s production company “40 Acres and a Mule.” Instead of issuing a statement or an apology, the executive office told Factor producer Jesse Watters that Spike Lee had “no comment.” That’s it. The famous filmmaker is coming under heavy pressure on Twitter to apologize. Lee's tweet has been removed, but it continues to be retweeted. Developing…
