Spike Lee retweet with wrong Zimmerman address sparks outrage and fear

Spike Lee's retweet of a tweet thought to contain the address of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman has resulted in a firestorm of criticism—in part, because the address was wrong.

The Sanford, Fla., address contained in the director's retweet actually belongs to an elderly couple who the Smoking Gun reports are "now living in fear due to erroneous reports about their connection to the shooter."
The original tweet—posted Friday by Marcus Davonne Higgins, a 33-year-old from Los Angeles using the Twitter handle @Maccapone—was sent to several celebrities including Lee, 50 Cent and LeBron James. Higgins urged friends on Facebook to "REACH OUT & TOUCH HIM." Lee retweeted the erroneous information to his 240,000-plus followers.

According to the site, David McClain, 72, and his 70-year-old wife Elaine have lived in the 1,310-square-foot home for about a decade and work in the local school system. "We're keeping everything locked," Elaine told TSG. Both are unrelated to the 28-year-old George Zimmerman who shot and killed Martin last month.

As many Twitter users have pointed out, Lee's retweet appears to have been in violation of Twitter's rules regarding privacy:

You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization and permission.
A spokeswoman for Twitter said the company does "not comment on individual users for privacy reasons."
However, another section of the social messaging service's rules outlines the process for reporting a violation of the privacy rule. (The same page includes this disclaimer: "Keep in mind that although you may consider certain information to be private, not all postings of such information may be a violation of this policy.")

Lee has not apologized for disseminating the wrong address. But he has since taken to Twitter to retweet the hate-filled, racially-charged tweets directed at him—and to dismiss critics who say he was provoking vigilante justice.
"I want justice, not a lynch mob," Lee wrote to one on Twitter. "Wake the hell up."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/spike-lee-retweet-wrong-zimmerman-address-sparks-outrage-221443866.html 





Can you imagine the lawsuits IF one hair on their heads is disturbed?

[frypan]

Is the $10,000.00 "reward" for Zimmerman put up by the New Black Panthers real money or Obamabucks?

First, is it ok to post on this thread without wearing a hoodie?

I just wanted to say that I'd be happy to be on the receiving end of a bunch of black cougars.

Just saw the video on the local news.
Zimmerman was in handcuffs and there was no visible blood or injury.

I thought he was treated by EMTs at the scene. Prolly cleaned him up a bit.

He did appear to be Hispanic.

He definitely appears hispanic but lets not waste a good opportunity to blame whitey.

Clean up by EMT's is possible. However I don't know if any of you ever had a broken nose.
I have. It doesn't clean up that well that fast. There's swelling, bleeding, bruising, black eyes.

Handcuffs will do that...

^ lol. wrong but funny.

that video is awful grainy. I am not a doctor to say that broken or bloodied nose is always visible right after but i am sure the paramedics will be testifying at the trial as well as the Dr who treated him the next day.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46908174/ns/local_news-new_york_ny/ 


i DEMAND JUSTICE!!!! Get sharpton and jackson up there!

Oh this is shocking!

http://www.bob-owens.com/2012/03/abc-news-doctors-zimmerman-video-to-pedal-false-story-in-trayvon-martin-case/ 

Wouldn't expect anything less from ABC! I wish there was a way to recall the MSM in this jacked up country.

with all the luck....spike Lee should run for Prez

Who dies next because of Al Sharpton?

Al Sharpton once said of Rush Limbaugh:

“He doesn’t have the right to lie and accuse people of crimes”

But apparently Sharpton does have that right.

The professional race baiting hate monger Sharpton is once again running his mouth at full throttle. He has promised civil disobedience if he doesn’t get what he wants and what he really wants is to lynch George Zimmerman.

If George Zimmerman is not arrested in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin soon, theRev. Al Sharpton will call for an escalation in peaceful civil disobedience and economic sanctions.

Sharpton would not say the efforts would be taken against the city of Sanford specifically, but he has been critical of the police department’s handling of the case.

Saturday’s scheduled 11 a.m. march from Crooms Academy of Information Technology to the Sanford Police Department headquarters was organized by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Coordinators said people will be bused in from other states to participate.

The civil rights activist and syndicated television show host said he will elaborate on this plan Saturday.

“I will speak about how the National Action Network will move to the next level if Zimmerman isn’t arrested,” Sharpton said, who founded the organization. He added that it was the Martin family and lawyers who first asked him to get involved and nationalize this story.

And he won’t be alone

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is also expected to participate in the event.

Sharpton doesn’t believe certain people have the right to self-defense:

“Whether he [Zimmerman] had a swollen or broken nose, neither one means he had to take a 9mm and kill someone,” he said. “It’s not about saying Zimmerman is innocent or guilty, this is about whether there was probable cause to arrest him.”

Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee did explain why Zimmerman wasn’t held:

Q. Why was George Zimmerman was not arrested the night of the shooting?

A. When the Sanford Police Department arrived at the scene of the incident, Mr. Zimmerman provided a statement claiming he acted in self-defense, which at the time was supported by physical evidence and testimony. By Florida Statute, law enforcement was prohibited from making an arrest based on the facts and circumstances they had at the time.

Additionally, when any police officer makes an arrest for any reason, the officer must swear and affirm that he/she is making the arrest in good faith and with probable cause. If the arrest is done maliciously and in bad faith, the officer and the city may be held liable.

According to Florida Statute 776.032 :

Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force.— 776.032

A person who uses force as permitted in s. (1) 776.012, s. 776.013, or s. 776.031 is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force, unless the person against whom force was used is a law enforcement officer, as defined in s. 943.10(14), who was acting in the performance of his or her official duties and the officer identified himself or herself in accordance with any applicable law or the person using force knew or reasonably should have known that the person was a law enforcement officer. As used in this subsection, the term “criminal prosecution” includes arresting, detaining in custody, and charging or prosecuting the defendant.

A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used was unlawful. (2)

Further, Zimmerman was within his rights to follow Martin

Q. Why did Mr. Zimmerman have a firearm in his possession while acting in the role of a neighborhood watch member?

A. Mr. Zimmerman holds a concealed weapon permit issued from the State of Florida. He is authorized to carry the weapon in a concealed manner wherever Florida Statute dictates.

Neighborhood Watch programs are designed for members of a neighborhood to be “eyes and ears” for police and to watch out for their neighbors. They are not members of the police department nor are they vigilantes.

Training provided by law enforcement agencies to Neighborhood Watch organizations stresses non-contact surveillance of suspicious situations, and notifying police of those situations so that law enforcement can respond and take control of the situation.

Mr. Zimmerman was not acting outside the legal boundaries of Florida Statute by carrying his weapon when this incident occurred. He was in fact on a personal errand in his vehicle when he observed Mr. Martin in the community and called the Sanford Police Department.

Al Sharpton has no use for either the facts or the truth, and he has a history of people dying in his wake. Jeff Jacoby once called Sharpton “The Democrats’ David Duke”:



1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent — the crime never occurred — but Sharpton taunts him: “If we’re lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it.” Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.

1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin’s funeral he rails against the “diamond merchants” — code for Jews — with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, “No justice, no peace.” A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting “Kill the Jews!” and stabbed to death.

1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy’s Fashion Mart, Freddy’s white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. “We will not stand by,” he warns malignantly, “and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” Sharpton’s National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy’s are spat on and cursed as “traitors” and “Uncle Toms.” Some protesters shout, “Burn down the Jew store!” and simulate striking a match. “We’re going to see that this cracker suffers,” says Sharpton’s colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy’s, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.

If Sharpton were a white skinhead, he would be a political leper, spurned everywhere but the fringe. But far from being spurned, he is shown much deference. Democrats embrace him. Politicians court him. And journalists report on his comings and goings while politely sidestepping his career as a hatemongering racial hustler.

When Sharpton came to Boston to promote his campaign last week, for example, the news coverage was uniformly upbeat. The Boston Herald noted the “joyous singing and thunderous applause” that greeted the “civil rights leader,” whose “energetic visit left many enthusiastic about his presidential bid.” The Globe announced the arrival of “the colorful and controversial 48-year-old community activist” with a story listing the places and times of his public appearances. The only allusion to his ugly record was a vague quote from a local minister: “He obviously has a lot of history and controversy to overcome.” That was quickly countered by Sharpton’s own self-description as a man known “for my fights against racial profiling and discrimination.”

Well, that isn’t what Steve Pagones or the family of Yankel Rosenbaum or the loved ones of those who were burned alive at Freddy’s Fashion Mart know him for. As they can testify, Sharpton is a vicious liar and a dangerous bigot. As a matter of moral hygiene, his party and the press should be able to say so, too.

This vile man is continually rewarded for his malevolent behavior. Here Barack Obama embraces Sharpton

and MSNBC even gives him his own show.

Howard Kurtz has noted the peculiarity of Sharpton covering himself on his show

Then Kurtz turned specifically to how Sharpton has been covering the case, describing him as a “major African-American activist in this country.” Kurtz played a series of clips showing Sharpton speaking at the Trayvon Martin rally in Florida, then filming his show near the site of the rally, then speaking again at the rally, effortlessly switching between activist and TV host. Kurtz said that Sharpton was asking people to donate money to the cause, and even went down to the Justice Department with the Martins.

Lauren Ashburn struggled to figure out why Sharpton was allowed to, essentially, cover himself on his own show. She did add that Sharpton has never pretended to be a journalist, and MSNBC knew what they were getting when they hired him as a personality, but Kurtz still thought something smelled rotten at MSNBC.

“It seems to me MSNBC can say, ‘Okay, this is such an important case you can go and be an activist and you won’t do your show on the subject. Or you can do your show on the subject but don’t be standing with the parents at the rally and accompanying them to the Justice Department.’”

Eric Deggans, a media critic for the Tampa Bay Times, said he’s always been concerned with Sharpton’s role at the network, and this particular situation makes things difficult because MSNBC has an obligation to cover the story because it’s news. So having one of their hosts injecting themselves into the story is a problem. Deggans also brought up Zimmerman, and whether he could feel like he could get a fair shake from NBC News or MSNBC if he went on for interviews.

For all barbs it throws at Fox, MSNBC is the truly phony news network.

Liberals have been feverishly attacking Fox News for years now, irate that the Left’s monopoly on television news outlets has been broken. Conservatives, on the other hand, have tended to ignore MSNBC, even though that network is far more partisan, and less reliable, than Fox. Perhaps this is because of a perception that hardly anyone watches MSNBC. It is true, of course, that that network’s ratings are nowhere near Fox’s, but still, close to a million people watch the most popular MSNBC shows. That is far too many for a network that is not only ridiculously partisan, but spews hate on a regular basis.

So it is not surprising that it would offer a execrable miscreant like Sharpton his own show.

Gratefully, there are cooler heads.

Turner Clayton, the Seminole County chapter president of the NAACP, reacted immediately to Sharpton’s warning, saying, “We hope that the citizens of Sanford will govern themselves accordingly. We are not calling for any sanctions, against any business or anyone else. And, of course, what Rev. Sharpton does, that’s strictly the [National] Action Network. We can’t condone that part of the conversation, if that’s what he said.”

If it wasn’t for hate, there would be no Al Sharpton and it’s unfortunate that so many continue to follow him. Despite all the deaths that he has caused, he has never been held accountable for any of them. If anyone demands arrest, it’s Sharpton.

He doesn’t have the right to lie and accuse people of crimes.


http://floppingaces.net/2012/03/31/who-dies-next-because-of-al-sharpton-reader-post/ 




See...he IS a race baiter and a liar! The NAACP is scurrying to separate from him and Jackson now...even though Ben Jealous the President of the NAACP called Sanford a KKK hot bed on last week's Meet The Press. NOBODY in the media picked up what he was throwing down. Like I said in an earlier post, if I was black...I'd want that man's job and his head on a pike for setting race relations in this nation back 50 years! See this rush to justice for what it is! A bunch of carpetbaggers looking for a victim to cash in on! There's some new rap song...it's a joke. In the audio you can hear the voice in the background yelling "Help"...there's evidence that just might show that that voice screaming for help is Zimmerman! That would be ironic justice! Momma gets royalties for having her son's name in a song and Zimmerman gets a fat payday because his voice is used without his permission!

LOLOLOL!!!


Can't make this up, but look how the media has been proven to be fabricators and liars in this case. Step back for a moment...think this is the only time they've done it? America has been lied to. It's been cheated. It's been bamboozled. Sensational powder kegs designed to blow, ginned up by experts make me want to watch "Wag The Dog" again and laugh if it wasn't so damn true. Think I'll watch "Network" instead!

To get back on topic, Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin and has not been arrested. He shouldn't be arrested because people are screaming for it. He should be arrested and let a jury decide if it was self defense. Had Trayvon shot and killed Zimmerman, Trayvon would be in jail with $2 million bail.

What the kid was wearing, what his past was, what Zimmerman's past was, whether or not Trayvon was hitting him or not does not matter. That's for a jury to decide.

Jeb and the author of the bill have stated that Stand Your Ground does not apply here.

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

SVU





(hooded thugs)

FuzzNJ is wearing a hoodie right now.

Don't be silly. That would be in direct violation of the Home Owners Association Rules, for his gated community.



Just a joke, Fuzzy. No need to get upset.

[sarcasm]