George Zimmerman Claims He Posted Trayvon Martin Twitter Pic By Accident
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If that’s so, you have to wonder why it was up for days.
(AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
Zimmerman seems to have made a lifestyle out of provoking people with self-aware insensitivity on Twitter after being acquitted of killing unarmed high school student Trayvon Martin in 2012.
On Tuesday, however, even he acknowledged he went too far when he retweeted a photograph of the 17-year-old’s lifeless body sent to him by an admirer last week with the caption calling Zimmerman a “one man army,” the Orlando Sentinel reports.
In a letter posted to Twitter, Zimmerman said he didn’t mean to post the image, saying he couldn’t see it when he posted it because the user, “Super Star Destroyer,” had voluntary selected to have all image flagged sensitive.
“I did not click on the blocked image to preview it prior to re-tweeting it,” Zimmerman said in the letter.
Yes, we all retweet images not knowing what they are. Zimmerman went on to say he wouldn’t knowingly do such a thing because he’s such a good Christian.
“As many have learned about me throughout my trial and subsequent events, I hold my Christian values very close. I believe that me knowingly re-tweeting that image, would not be looked upon favorably by God; therefore I would not do it,” he wrote.
But the New York Daily News points out that the photo stayed up for days and it was Twitter that removed it, not Zimmerman.
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