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struggle4progress

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Thu May 12, 2016, 11:37 AM May 2016

George Zimmerman's many controversies

Travis M. Andrews
The Washington Post
May 12, 2016

... He calls the gun an "American Firearm Icon" and wrote that proceeds will be used to "fight <Black Lives Matter> violence against Law Enforcement officers" ...

... last October .. he retweeted a photograph of Trayvon Martin's slain body ...

Zimmerman is no stranger to Twitter controversy. He's used it to call President Barack Obama an " ignorant baboon" ...

... his account was suspended in 2015 after he posted semi-nude photographs of his ex-girlfriend. In the captions, he included her personal email address and telephone number and accused her of having sex with a "dirty Muslim" ...

... he teamed up with Florida Gun Supply -- a .. store that .. declared itself a "Muslim-free zone" -- to sell prints of .. a Confederate battle flag ...


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-george-zimmerman-controversies-20160512-story.html

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