Remember back when George Zimmerman was first arrested after the Trayvon Martin shooting when Spike Lee re-tweeted an address that he thought were Zimmerman’s parents? Turns out the address was of Elaine and David McClain, an elderly Florida couple who was forced to leave the house because of all the death threats they were getting after Spike Lee’s re=tweet. Now, they can’t even sell the house because of that wrongful re-tweet. So they are suing the D list hack Spike Lee. I hope they win millions.
An elderly Florida couple has filed a negligence lawsuit against Spike Lee, alleging that the film director claimed in a Twitter message that George Zimmerman lived at their Sanford home, a mistake that prompted a flood of death threats being directed at them.
One month after Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin in February 2012, Lee sent out a tweet to his 240,000 followers that included what purported to be Zimmerman’s home address in Sanford.
The address was actually the longtime residence of Elaine and David McClain, a married couple with no connection to Zimmerman. The McClains are pictured at right.
As TSG reported last year, Lee retweeted a message containing the bogus Zimmerman address. The original source of that misinformation was a California man who sent the purported Zimmerman address to Lee and an assortment of celebrities with the direction, “EVERYBODY REPOST THIS.”