Crime & Safety

George Zimmerman Retweets Pic of Trayvon Martin's Body

The former neighborhood watch captain retweeted a photo last week of the crime scene.

George Zimmerman is making headlines yet again, but not in a good way.

The former Florida neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed an unarmed teenager in 2012 has raised eyebrows across the country by choosing to retweet a photo that showed the 17-year-old’s dead body as investigators stood over him, People is reporting.

It seems one of Zimmerman’s Twitter followers posted the image of Trayvon Martin with the tweet “Z-man is a one-man army,” the magazine reported. Rather than pass it by, Zimmerman blasted the image out in a retweet to his 12,000 or so followers. The tweet has since been taken down, People noted.

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Zimmerman was acquitted Martin’s shooting death in 2013. He has been in and out of the news since his acquittal, most recently for teaming up with the Florida gun shop owner who declared his store a “Muslim-free zone.” He also made headlines after being shot while in his car and for blaming President Barack Obama for racial tensions that erupted following Martin’s 2012 death.

Federal civil rights charges in the 17-year-old’s death loomed over Zimmerman until recently. The U.S. Justice Department cited “insufficient evidence” for its February decision against pursuing further action. Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford when the 2012 shooting took place. His acquittal sparked protests across the country.

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