George Zimmerman sues Warren and Buttigieg for 265 million

[Rigby5]

George Zimmerman, the onetime neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida, is suing Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg for $265 million, claiming both 2020 Democratic presidential candidates defamed him in an attempt to "garner votes in the black community."

The lawsuit filed in Polk County, Fla., Tuesday argues Warren and Buttigieg’s two separate tweets on Feb. 5, which would have been Martin’s 25th birthday, used the killing “as a pretext to demagogue and falsely brand Zimmerman as a white supremacist and racist to their millions of Twitter followers.”

Buttigieg tweeted to his 1.6 million followers. The message garnered 42,000 likes, 13,300 replies and 6,600 retweets in just three days, the lawsuit states.

“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,” Warren tweeted to her 3.6 million followers on the same day, sharing four photos of Trayvon Martin as a small child, between the ages of 4 and 10. The message received 7,300 likes and 1,000 retweets in three days, in addition to national media coverage, the lawsuit states.

George Zimmerman sues Warren, Buttigieg for $265M, accuses them of attempting to garner black votes by defaming him

Any chance at him winning?

Zero.

Read the tweets --- neither one even mentions the plaitiff's name. How in the fuck can you "defame" somebody if you won't even specify who you're talking about?

Fake news.

Who else could they have been talking about? They were celebrating what would be Martin's birthday today, and they basically said that the person that killed him was a racist white-Hispanic supremacist. There was only one person that killed Martin.

You cannot build a defamation case on assumptions. The law requires that the defamer published or uttered some purported factual statement about the aggrieved, that they knew to be false, with the express purpose of defaming him/her. None of that is met here.

One tweet reads, "How many 25th birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?" That's not even a statement at all; it's a rhetorical question. And it mentions no names.

The other tweet reads, "“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,”

Again, no names other than the deceased. What case can a plaintiff possibly make there? That we should NOT end gun violence and racism and we should NOT build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free?

Rotsa ruck wit dat one. And even if they did make that case, it wasn't directed at anyone.

The fact is Martin deserved killing, a jury said so. So there was no stolen 25th birthday stolen in his case.

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If somebody robs a beverage store an is shot by the owner, nobody can say the robber's life was stolen. He took it upon himself to surrender his life for personal desire or gain.

Except that Martin did nothing wrong, either ethically or legally.
He was not committing a crime like robbing a store.
He was just trying to walk home.
It was Zimmerman who deliberately caused fear and violence.
Whether Zimmerman had good or bad intentions, we will never know.
But we do know what he did was illegal, in that you can not deliberately chase and cut off a kid at night, scaring him like that.
Martin had a right to privacy at the very least, that Zimmerman violated, and was guilty of disturbing the peace for a start.
For example, if Zimmerman chasing Martin had caused Martin to run across a street and gotten hit by a car and killed, then Zimmerman would still have been guilty of murder.
No matter the outcome or details, it was Zimmerman who caused it all to happen due to his own illegal actions, so he bear all the guilt for all the result.

 

[OKTexas]

Zero.

Read the tweets --- neither one even mentions the plaitiff's name. How in the fuck can you "defame" somebody if you won't even specify who you're talking about?

Fake news.

Who else could they have been talking about? They were celebrating what would be Martin's birthday today, and they basically said that the person that killed him was a racist white-Hispanic supremacist. There was only one person that killed Martin.

You cannot build a defamation case on assumptions. The law requires that the defamer published or uttered some purported factual statement about the aggrieved, that they knew to be false, with the express purpose of defaming him/her. None of that is met here.

One tweet reads, "How many 25th birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?" That's not even a statement at all; it's a rhetorical question. And it mentions no names.

The other tweet reads, "“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,”

Again, no names other than the deceased. What case can a plaintiff possibly make there? That we should NOT end gun violence and racism and we should NOT build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free?

Rotsa ruck wit dat one. And even if they did make that case, it wasn't directed at anyone.

The fact is Martin deserved killing, a jury said so. So there was no stolen 25th birthday stolen in his case.

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If somebody robs a beverage store an is shot by the owner, nobody can say the robber's life was stolen. He took it upon himself to surrender his life for personal desire or gain.

Fair point. But if you're planting your flag on this Zimmerman person being the subject in the tweets in question,.that poses its own question -- was the kid on the end of the bullet robbing a beverage store? Or robbing anything? I don't know the details of the event.

Martin had Zimmerman on his back pounding his head in the pavement. Martin was the aggressor and got his self killed, Zimmerman was to have acted in self defense. Martin and Zimmerman are inextricably linked to that day. Google either one and the other will appear in the story. That's why Zimmerman might have a case.

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[MacTheKnife]

Get em Big Zim!....Fauxhauntas and Mayor Buttplug are gonna pay!

It will be tossed as it likely should be.

These kinds of asinine lawsuits are the reason shit like insurance is so astronomical

250 million??? More money than he could make in multiple lifetimes

Punitive damages are most appropiate in a case like this where the liberal media lied and conspired to send an innocent man to jail backed up by the state and Federal
Government and even Obama got mixed up in it.

pu·ni·tive damages
noun
LAW

1. damages exceeding simple compensation and awarded to punish the defendant.

A huge settlement would send a strong message that it is high time the double standard that exists regarding interracial crimes be put to an end aka....more and more people are getting tired of blacks always being considered innocent by the media especially when it is of a interracial nature.

 

[Pogo]

Who else could they have been talking about? They were celebrating what would be Martin's birthday today, and they basically said that the person that killed him was a racist white-Hispanic supremacist. There was only one person that killed Martin.

You cannot build a defamation case on assumptions. The law requires that the defamer published or uttered some purported factual statement about the aggrieved, that they knew to be false, with the express purpose of defaming him/her. None of that is met here.

One tweet reads, "How many 25th birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?" That's not even a statement at all; it's a rhetorical question. And it mentions no names.

The other tweet reads, "“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,”

Again, no names other than the deceased. What case can a plaintiff possibly make there? That we should NOT end gun violence and racism and we should NOT build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free?

Rotsa ruck wit dat one. And even if they did make that case, it wasn't directed at anyone.

The fact is Martin deserved killing, a jury said so. So there was no stolen 25th birthday stolen in his case.

.

If somebody robs a beverage store an is shot by the owner, nobody can say the robber's life was stolen. He took it upon himself to surrender his life for personal desire or gain.

Fair point. But if you're planting your flag on this Zimmerman person being the subject in the tweets in question,.that poses its own question -- was the kid on the end of the bullet robbing a beverage store? Or robbing anything? I don't know the details of the event.

Martin had Zimmerman on his back pounding his head in the pavement. Martin was the aggressor and got his self killed, Zimmerman was to have acted in self defense. Martin and Zimmerman are inextricably linked to that day. Google either one and the other will appear in the story. That's why Zimmerman might have a case.

Whatever the details of that may be, nobody was named in either of the tweets in question, which is the first and biggest most obvious reason he has no case.

My post above was to ask Ray if his analogy of the store burglar applies to the shooting event. From what I'm reading it would appear it does not.

 

[MacTheKnife]

Who else could they have been talking about? They were celebrating what would be Martin's birthday today, and they basically said that the person that killed him was a racist white-Hispanic supremacist. There was only one person that killed Martin.

You cannot build a defamation case on assumptions. The law requires that the defamer published or uttered some purported factual statement about the aggrieved, that they knew to be false, with the express purpose of defaming him/her. None of that is met here.

One tweet reads, "How many 25th birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?" That's not even a statement at all; it's a rhetorical question. And it mentions no names.

The other tweet reads, "“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,”

Again, no names other than the deceased. What case can a plaintiff possibly make there? That we should NOT end gun violence and racism and we should NOT build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free?

Rotsa ruck wit dat one. And even if they did make that case, it wasn't directed at anyone.

The fact is Martin deserved killing, a jury said so. So there was no stolen 25th birthday stolen in his case.

.

If somebody robs a beverage store an is shot by the owner, nobody can say the robber's life was stolen. He took it upon himself to surrender his life for personal desire or gain.

Fair point. But if you're planting your flag on this Zimmerman person being the subject in the tweets in question,.that poses its own question -- was the kid on the end of the bullet robbing a beverage store? Or robbing anything? I don't know the details of the event.

Martin had Zimmerman on his back pounding his head in the pavement. Martin was the aggressor and got his self killed, Zimmerman was to have acted in self defense. Martin and Zimmerman are inextricably linked to that day. Google either one and the other will appear in the story. That's why Zimmerman might have a case.

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Definitely and if he can get a good lawyer he might finally get some justice.

 

[OKTexas]

George Zimmerman, the onetime neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida, is suing Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg for $265 million, claiming both 2020 Democratic presidential candidates defamed him in an attempt to "garner votes in the black community."

The lawsuit filed in Polk County, Fla., Tuesday argues Warren and Buttigieg’s two separate tweets on Feb. 5, which would have been Martin’s 25th birthday, used the killing “as a pretext to demagogue and falsely brand Zimmerman as a white supremacist and racist to their millions of Twitter followers.”

Buttigieg tweeted to his 1.6 million followers. The message garnered 42,000 likes, 13,300 replies and 6,600 retweets in just three days, the lawsuit states.

“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,” Warren tweeted to her 3.6 million followers on the same day, sharing four photos of Trayvon Martin as a small child, between the ages of 4 and 10. The message received 7,300 likes and 1,000 retweets in three days, in addition to national media coverage, the lawsuit states.

George Zimmerman sues Warren, Buttigieg for $265M, accuses them of attempting to garner black votes by defaming him

Any chance at him winning? Who knows. I'm sure he has a lawyer that made this decision, so I'm guessing he can.

There was nothing racial about the shooting of Martin. Zimmerman, a minority himself, lived in a very diverse gated housing complex. If I remember correctly, he attended his school prom with a black girlfriend. But because he was a white-Hispanic and not black himself, the lying MSM tried to make it a racial incident.

Have the Democrats finally crossed the line with using blacks to promote their hate? We'll see. Should be a very interesting election with this in the works.

No, the audio of the 9/11 operator clearly contains Zimmerman using the 'N' word.
Zimmerman was racist, and FL Hispanics are notorious for being ultra racist.

Also Zimmerman was NOT at all a member of Neighborhood Watch.
He went to one meeting, but was rejected because he would not follow the rules.
And the rules would have prevented the situation that he caused by his criminal actions.
Neighborhood Watch never allows any of its member to patrol while armed or alone.
By violating those simple and obvious rules, and a few more, Zimmerman caused the whole scenario to occur.
It was all his fault, even if it did not necessarily prove an intent to commit 2nd degree murder.

We also now know Zimmerman is not a good guy because of all the additional violence he has been convicted of, such as domestic violence.

Link to the 911 call, Zimmerman never used the "N" word, you're just a flat out liar.

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[Pogo]

Get em Big Zim!....Fauxhauntas and Mayor Buttplug are gonna pay!

It will be tossed as it likely should be.

These kinds of asinine lawsuits are the reason shit like insurance is so astronomical

250 million??? More money than he could make in multiple lifetimes

Punitive damages are most appropiate in a case like this where the liberal media lied and conspired to send an innocent man to jail backed up by the state and Federal
Government and even Obama got mixed up in it.

A huge settlement would send a strong message that it is high time the double standard that exists regarding interracial crimes be put to an end aka....more and more people are getting tired of blacks always being considered innocent by the media especially when it is of a interracial nature.

There was a suit against media (NBC) and it was dismissed, like six years ago.

The conspiracy-chaser lawyer who filed that one is apparently the instigator on this one as well.

 

[Pogo]

You cannot build a defamation case on assumptions. The law requires that the defamer published or uttered some purported factual statement about the aggrieved, that they knew to be false, with the express purpose of defaming him/her. None of that is met here.

One tweet reads, "How many 25th birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?" That's not even a statement at all; it's a rhetorical question. And it mentions no names.

The other tweet reads, "“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,”

Again, no names other than the deceased. What case can a plaintiff possibly make there? That we should NOT end gun violence and racism and we should NOT build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free?

Rotsa ruck wit dat one. And even if they did make that case, it wasn't directed at anyone.

The fact is Martin deserved killing, a jury said so. So there was no stolen 25th birthday stolen in his case.

.

If somebody robs a beverage store an is shot by the owner, nobody can say the robber's life was stolen. He took it upon himself to surrender his life for personal desire or gain.

Fair point. But if you're planting your flag on this Zimmerman person being the subject in the tweets in question,.that poses its own question -- was the kid on the end of the bullet robbing a beverage store? Or robbing anything? I don't know the details of the event.

Martin had Zimmerman on his back pounding his head in the pavement. Martin was the aggressor and got his self killed, Zimmerman was to have acted in self defense. Martin and Zimmerman are inextricably linked to that day. Google either one and the other will appear in the story. That's why Zimmerman might have a case.

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Definitely and if he can get a good lawyer he might finally get some justice.

You can't sue people who aren't even named.

Most illustrative how you worded this. Man shoots black kid, gets off, then sues victim's family, then sues two tweeters who didn't even bring his name up, and now "maybe he can finally get some justice".

Holy SHIT.

 

[OKTexas]

You cannot build a defamation case on assumptions. The law requires that the defamer published or uttered some purported factual statement about the aggrieved, that they knew to be false, with the express purpose of defaming him/her. None of that is met here.

One tweet reads, "How many 25th birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?" That's not even a statement at all; it's a rhetorical question. And it mentions no names.

The other tweet reads, "“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,”

Again, no names other than the deceased. What case can a plaintiff possibly make there? That we should NOT end gun violence and racism and we should NOT build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free?

Rotsa ruck wit dat one. And even if they did make that case, it wasn't directed at anyone.

The fact is Martin deserved killing, a jury said so. So there was no stolen 25th birthday stolen in his case.

.

If somebody robs a beverage store an is shot by the owner, nobody can say the robber's life was stolen. He took it upon himself to surrender his life for personal desire or gain.

Fair point. But if you're planting your flag on this Zimmerman person being the subject in the tweets in question,.that poses its own question -- was the kid on the end of the bullet robbing a beverage store? Or robbing anything? I don't know the details of the event.

Martin had Zimmerman on his back pounding his head in the pavement. Martin was the aggressor and got his self killed, Zimmerman was to have acted in self defense. Martin and Zimmerman are inextricably linked to that day. Google either one and the other will appear in the story. That's why Zimmerman might have a case.

Whatever the details of that may be, nobody was named in either of the tweets in question, which is the first and biggest most obvious reason he has no case.

My post above was to ask Ray if his analogy of the store burglar applies to the shooting event. From what I'm reading it would appear it does not.

No it was assault and battery with bodily injury. Zimmerman defended himself. It's just that simple.

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[MacTheKnife]

Zero.

Read the tweets --- neither one even mentions the plaitiff's name. How in the fuck can you "defame" somebody if you won't even specify who you're talking about?

Fake news.

Who else could they have been talking about? They were celebrating what would be Martin's birthday today, and they basically said that the person that killed him was a racist white-Hispanic supremacist. There was only one person that killed Martin.

You cannot build a defamation case on assumptions. The law requires that the defamer published or uttered some purported factual statement about the aggrieved, that they knew to be false, with the express purpose of defaming him/her. None of that is met here.

One tweet reads, "How many 25th birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?" That's not even a statement at all; it's a rhetorical question. And it mentions no names.

The other tweet reads, "“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,”

Again, no names other than the deceased. What case can a plaintiff possibly make there? That we should NOT end gun violence and racism and we should NOT build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free?

Rotsa ruck wit dat one. And even if they did make that case, it wasn't directed at anyone.

The fact is Martin deserved killing, a jury said so. So there was no stolen 25th birthday stolen in his case.

.

If somebody robs a beverage store an is shot by the owner, nobody can say the robber's life was stolen. He took it upon himself to surrender his life for personal desire or gain.

Except that Martin did nothing wrong, either ethically or legally.
He was not committing a crime like robbing a store.
He was just trying to walk home.
It was Zimmerman who deliberately caused fear and violence.
Whether Zimmerman had good or bad intentions, we will never know.
But we do know what he did was illegal, in that you can not deliberately chase and cut off a kid at night, scaring him like that.
Martin had a right to privacy at the very least, that Zimmerman violated, and was guilty of disturbing the peace for a start.
For example, if Zimmerman chasing Martin had caused Martin to run across a street and gotten hit by a car and killed, then Zimmerman would still have been guilty of murder.
No matter the outcome or details, it was Zimmerman who caused it all to happen due to his own illegal actions, so he bear all the guilt for all the result.

What a crock....but to always be expected from liberals and negroes regarding this case.

Trayvon was loitering, lingering, and peeping into windows in a neighborhood plagued with burglaries and home invasions....on a dark and rainy night where he most likely thought no one would notice him.

Whilst it cannot be proven he was casing homes for a burglary....with his history it is very possible and definitely Z was right to report him as a suspicious person.

Your idiotic narrative comes from your biased imagination and definitely not the evidence that was laid out in court...

Evidence so compelling that even liberals on the jury voted to find Z not guilty. Evidence so compelling that the notorious liberal jimmuh ah yes I say jimmy carter said the jury got it right.

If you had not been too lazy to watch the trial or even look at the evidence in the case you might realize how stupid you sound and how ridiculous your vain attempt to try and make trayvon appear innocent is so outrageous.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Get em Big Zim!....Fauxhauntas and Mayor Buttplug are gonna pay!

It will be tossed as it likely should be.

These kinds of asinine lawsuits are the reason shit like insurance is so astronomical

250 million??? More money than he could make in multiple lifetimes

Punitive damages are most appropiate in a case like this where the liberal media lied and conspired to send an innocent man to jail backed up by the state and Federal
Government and even Obama got mixed up in it.

A huge settlement would send a strong message that it is high time the double standard that exists regarding interracial crimes be put to an end aka....more and more people are getting tired of blacks always being considered innocent by the media especially when it is of a interracial nature.

I am just not on the lawsuit bandwagon in most circumstances.
So many of the products and services we buy are padded with hidden costs because of frivolous lawsuits.
Suing someone because they hurt your feelings is way over the top unless you can prove that it has caused you unnecessary financial hardships.

 

[MacTheKnife]

Get em Big Zim!....Fauxhauntas and Mayor Buttplug are gonna pay!

It will be tossed as it likely should be.

These kinds of asinine lawsuits are the reason shit like insurance is so astronomical

250 million??? More money than he could make in multiple lifetimes

Punitive damages are most appropiate in a case like this where the liberal media lied and conspired to send an innocent man to jail backed up by the state and Federal
Government and even Obama got mixed up in it.

A huge settlement would send a strong message that it is high time the double standard that exists regarding interracial crimes be put to an end aka....more and more people are getting tired of blacks always being considered innocent by the media especially when it is of a interracial nature.

I am just not on the lawsuit bandwagon in most circumstances.
So many of the products and services we buy are padded with hidden costs because of frivolous lawsuits.
Suing someone because they hurt your feelings is way over the top unless you can prove that it has caused you unnecessary financial hardships.

You seem not to understand the legal concept of punitive damages and what they are designed to do.

Yes...there are a lot of friviolous lawsuits but such are completely irrelevant to this case.

A strong message needs to be sent (especially to the media) that the double standard regarding justice for blacks vs. whites needs to be stopped and that the media must be punished severely for their bias.

the double standard regarding black criminals - Google Search

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Get em Big Zim!....Fauxhauntas and Mayor Buttplug are gonna pay!

It will be tossed as it likely should be.

These kinds of asinine lawsuits are the reason shit like insurance is so astronomical

250 million??? More money than he could make in multiple lifetimes

Punitive damages are most appropiate in a case like this where the liberal media lied and conspired to send an innocent man to jail backed up by the state and Federal
Government and even Obama got mixed up in it.

A huge settlement would send a strong message that it is high time the double standard that exists regarding interracial crimes be put to an end aka....more and more people are getting tired of blacks always being considered innocent by the media especially when it is of a interracial nature.

I am just not on the lawsuit bandwagon in most circumstances.
So many of the products and services we buy are padded with hidden costs because of frivolous lawsuits.
Suing someone because they hurt your feelings is way over the top unless you can prove that it has caused you unnecessary financial hardships.

You seem not to understand legal concept of punitive damages and what they are designed to do.

Yes...there are a lot of friviolous lawsuits but such are completely irrelevant to this case.

A strong message needs to be sent (especially to the media) that the double standard regarding justice for blacks vs. whites needs to be stopped and that the media must be punished severely for their bias.

Substitute OJ Simpson for Zimmerman in the op. Same exact circumstances except he's suing Limbaugh, Hannity, Fox News and a couple GOP members.
All of us, including the Media knew he was guilt and stated as much despite the not guilty verdict.

Still feel the same?

 

[MacTheKnife]

George Zimmerman, the onetime neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida, is suing Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg for $265 million, claiming both 2020 Democratic presidential candidates defamed him in an attempt to "garner votes in the black community."

The lawsuit filed in Polk County, Fla., Tuesday argues Warren and Buttigieg’s two separate tweets on Feb. 5, which would have been Martin’s 25th birthday, used the killing “as a pretext to demagogue and falsely brand Zimmerman as a white supremacist and racist to their millions of Twitter followers.”

Buttigieg tweeted to his 1.6 million followers. The message garnered 42,000 likes, 13,300 replies and 6,600 retweets in just three days, the lawsuit states.

“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,” Warren tweeted to her 3.6 million followers on the same day, sharing four photos of Trayvon Martin as a small child, between the ages of 4 and 10. The message received 7,300 likes and 1,000 retweets in three days, in addition to national media coverage, the lawsuit states.

George Zimmerman sues Warren, Buttigieg for $265M, accuses them of attempting to garner black votes by defaming him

Any chance at him winning? Who knows. I'm sure he has a lawyer that made this decision, so I'm guessing he can.

There was nothing racial about the shooting of Martin. Zimmerman, a minority himself, lived in a very diverse gated housing complex. If I remember correctly, he attended his school prom with a black girlfriend. But because he was a white-Hispanic and not black himself, the lying MSM tried to make it a racial incident.

Have the Democrats finally crossed the line with using blacks to promote their hate? We'll see. Should be a very interesting election with this in the works.

No, the audio of the 9/11 operator clearly contains Zimmerman using the 'N' word.
Zimmerman was racist, and FL Hispanics are notorious for being ultra racist.

Also Zimmerman was NOT at all a member of Neighborhood Watch.
He went to one meeting, but was rejected because he would not follow the rules.
And the rules would have prevented the situation that he caused by his criminal actions.
Neighborhood Watch never allows any of its member to patrol while armed or alone.
By violating those simple and obvious rules, and a few more, Zimmerman caused the whole scenario to occur.
It was all his fault, even if it did not necessarily prove an intent to commit 2nd degree murder.

We also now know Zimmerman is not a good guy because of all the additional violence he has been convicted of, such as domestic violence.

Not a word of truth in the above ....demonstrated by the evidence presented at the trial.

People that come on here and post such obvious lies should be banned.

 

[MacTheKnife]

As with Nick Sandman who is now a millionaire, it is time to make the day he defended his community the best day of his life, rather than being the worst.

Make him very rich at the expense of fake Indian.

The fake indian has no money....the media will be required to pay big time as well as they should. This case sends a strong message to the mainstream media...cease with your lies and bias or expect to be severely punished.

 

[MacTheKnife]

Get em Big Zim!....Fauxhauntas and Mayor Buttplug are gonna pay!

It will be tossed as it likely should be.

These kinds of asinine lawsuits are the reason shit like insurance is so astronomical

250 million??? More money than he could make in multiple lifetimes

Punitive damages are most appropiate in a case like this where the liberal media lied and conspired to send an innocent man to jail backed up by the state and Federal
Government and even Obama got mixed up in it.

A huge settlement would send a strong message that it is high time the double standard that exists regarding interracial crimes be put to an end aka....more and more people are getting tired of blacks always being considered innocent by the media especially when it is of a interracial nature.

I am just not on the lawsuit bandwagon in most circumstances.
So many of the products and services we buy are padded with hidden costs because of frivolous lawsuits.
Suing someone because they hurt your feelings is way over the top unless you can prove that it has caused you unnecessary financial hardships.

You seem not to understand legal concept of punitive damages and what they are designed to do.

Yes...there are a lot of friviolous lawsuits but such are completely irrelevant to this case.

A strong message needs to be sent (especially to the media) that the double standard regarding justice for blacks vs. whites needs to be stopped and that the media must be punished severely for their bias.

Substitute OJ Simpson for Zimmerman in the op. Same exact circumstances except he's suing Limbaugh, Hannity, Fox News and a couple GOP members.
All of us, including the Media knew he was guilt and stated as much despite the not guilty verdict.

Still feel the same?

Can anyone say incoherent?

 

[MacTheKnife]

Half Hispanic = White if Left Wing Fucko Lunatics want to use you for political gain.

Half Black = Black if Left Wing Fucko Lunatics want to use you for political gain.

The media didn't even make that distinction. They used the term white-Hispanic. They had to get the "white" part in there, or otherwise it wouldn't be a story. They couldn't get any protests going using Hispanic, they couldn't get any riots going, they couldn't sell enough news papers.

It’s all political opportunism.

Isn’t it interesting that the guy driving a van into a tent full of Trump supporters got no national coverage?

You may not be a negro but you certainly sound like one.

Now, flip the script and say it was a Trump supporter diving a van into a Bernie tent...do you think it makes the national news?

Besides the Zimmerman story being dragged out for as long as it was, the media still hounded him years after it was over. It was a simple local self-defense case that would have never gotten any national media attention if it were two black people or two whites.

The other weekend, Chicago reported 9 dead and 14 injured in shootings. That's just one weekend. One of the wounded victims was a 7 year old girl. No big deal. Nothing to see here. It's the usual black on black crime going on.

Such blatant and disgusting political opportunism. Dimms are filthy and morally bankrupt.

There was no self defense involved in the Zimmerman case.
You can't chase people at night, block their access to their home, and call it self defense.

You should present the actual evidence of the case and not some ridiculous nonsense from your biased imagination. Pathetic

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Zero.

Read the tweets --- neither one even mentions the plaitiff's name. How in the fuck can you "defame" somebody if you won't even specify who you're talking about?

Fake news.

Who else could they have been talking about? They were celebrating what would be Martin's birthday today, and they basically said that the person that killed him was a racist white-Hispanic supremacist. There was only one person that killed Martin.

You cannot build a defamation case on assumptions. The law requires that the defamer published or uttered some purported factual statement about the aggrieved, that they knew to be false, with the express purpose of defaming him/her. None of that is met here.

One tweet reads, "How many 25th birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?" That's not even a statement at all; it's a rhetorical question. And it mentions no names.

The other tweet reads, "“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,”

Again, no names other than the deceased. What case can a plaintiff possibly make there? That we should NOT end gun violence and racism and we should NOT build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free?

Rotsa ruck wit dat one. And even if they did make that case, it wasn't directed at anyone.

The fact is Martin deserved killing, a jury said so. So there was no stolen 25th birthday stolen in his case.

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If somebody robs a beverage store an is shot by the owner, nobody can say the robber's life was stolen. He took it upon himself to surrender his life for personal desire or gain.

Except that Martin did nothing wrong, either ethically or legally.
He was not committing a crime like robbing a store.
He was just trying to walk home.
It was Zimmerman who deliberately caused fear and violence.
Whether Zimmerman had good or bad intentions, we will never know.
But we do know what he did was illegal, in that you can not deliberately chase and cut off a kid at night, scaring him like that.
Martin had a right to privacy at the very least, that Zimmerman violated, and was guilty of disturbing the peace for a start.
For example, if Zimmerman chasing Martin had caused Martin to run across a street and gotten hit by a car and killed, then Zimmerman would still have been guilty of murder.
No matter the outcome or details, it was Zimmerman who caused it all to happen due to his own illegal actions, so he bear all the guilt for all the result.

Name me one illegal thing Zimmerman did. Martin did nothing wrong? I would say felony assault is very wrong, not only wrong, but illegal. Zimmerman was not chasing Martin. Martin took off, and Zimmerman was running to keep an eye on him for the police. This is clear in his 911 recording. When the dispatcher stated he didn't need to keep an eye on him, Zimmerman stopped running, again, very clear on the 911 recording.

Martin was a taller young man who played football. He clearly outran Zimmerman without breaking a sweat, and kept an eye on him until Zimmerman hung up the phone. That's when he launched his attack on Zimmerman and began to beat the living hell out of him.

The law in many states is that you can use deadly force if you believe that you (or others) are in jeopardy of serious bodily harm or death. That's what Zimmerman did. Martin had him pinned down, and there was no way for Zimmerman to escape. Zimmerman had no way of knowing when he'd stop, or if he'd stop. He clearly feared for his life which the law provides him the ability to defend his life with deadly force.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

George Zimmerman, the onetime neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida, is suing Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg for $265 million, claiming both 2020 Democratic presidential candidates defamed him in an attempt to "garner votes in the black community."

The lawsuit filed in Polk County, Fla., Tuesday argues Warren and Buttigieg’s two separate tweets on Feb. 5, which would have been Martin’s 25th birthday, used the killing “as a pretext to demagogue and falsely brand Zimmerman as a white supremacist and racist to their millions of Twitter followers.”

Buttigieg tweeted to his 1.6 million followers. The message garnered 42,000 likes, 13,300 replies and 6,600 retweets in just three days, the lawsuit states.

“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,” Warren tweeted to her 3.6 million followers on the same day, sharing four photos of Trayvon Martin as a small child, between the ages of 4 and 10. The message received 7,300 likes and 1,000 retweets in three days, in addition to national media coverage, the lawsuit states.

George Zimmerman sues Warren, Buttigieg for $265M, accuses them of attempting to garner black votes by defaming him

Any chance at him winning? Who knows. I'm sure he has a lawyer that made this decision, so I'm guessing he can.

There was nothing racial about the shooting of Martin. Zimmerman, a minority himself, lived in a very diverse gated housing complex. If I remember correctly, he attended his school prom with a black girlfriend. But because he was a white-Hispanic and not black himself, the lying MSM tried to make it a racial incident.

Have the Democrats finally crossed the line with using blacks to promote their hate? We'll see. Should be a very interesting election with this in the works.

No, the audio of the 9/11 operator clearly contains Zimmerman using the 'N' word.
Zimmerman was racist, and FL Hispanics are notorious for being ultra racist.

Also Zimmerman was NOT at all a member of Neighborhood Watch.
He went to one meeting, but was rejected because he would not follow the rules.
And the rules would have prevented the situation that he caused by his criminal actions.
Neighborhood Watch never allows any of its member to patrol while armed or alone.
By violating those simple and obvious rules, and a few more, Zimmerman caused the whole scenario to occur.
It was all his fault, even if it did not necessarily prove an intent to commit 2nd degree murder.

We also now know Zimmerman is not a good guy because of all the additional violence he has been convicted of, such as domestic violence.

Zimmerman was part of the neighborhood watch, but that had nothing to do with the shooting. Zimmerman was simply going to the store. After he got in his truck, he spotted Martin. Knowing most of the people there, he knew Martin was not part of that gated community, and given the rise of home break-ins, he suspected that Martin could be one of the people involved in the crimes.

Zimmerman did the right thing. He seen a suspicious character that fit the description of the people breaking into homes, and immediately called the police. That's what you're supposed to do.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Zero.

Read the tweets --- neither one even mentions the plaitiff's name. How in the fuck can you "defame" somebody if you won't even specify who you're talking about?

Fake news.

Who else could they have been talking about? They were celebrating what would be Martin's birthday today, and they basically said that the person that killed him was a racist white-Hispanic supremacist. There was only one person that killed Martin.

You cannot build a defamation case on assumptions. The law requires that the defamer published or uttered some purported factual statement about the aggrieved, that they knew to be false, with the express purpose of defaming him/her. None of that is met here.

One tweet reads, "How many 25th birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?" That's not even a statement at all; it's a rhetorical question. And it mentions no names.

The other tweet reads, "“My heart goes out to @SybrinaFulton and Trayvon's family and friends. He should still be with us today. We need to end gun violence and racism. And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free,”

Again, no names other than the deceased. What case can a plaintiff possibly make there? That we should NOT end gun violence and racism and we should NOT build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free?

Rotsa ruck wit dat one. And even if they did make that case, it wasn't directed at anyone.

The fact is Martin deserved killing, a jury said so. So there was no stolen 25th birthday stolen in his case.

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If somebody robs a beverage store an is shot by the owner, nobody can say the robber's life was stolen. He took it upon himself to surrender his life for personal desire or gain.

Fair point. But if you're planting your flag on this Zimmerman person being the subject in the tweets in question,.that poses its own question -- was the kid on the end of the bullet robbing a beverage store? Or robbing anything? I don't know the details of the event.

Our laws are pretty similar to those in Florida. I'm pushing 60 years old right now, and I have a lot of medical problems. If two younger built guys point to me and say "LETS GET HIM" it's irrelevant if they have a weapon or not. No law states they have to. I (as a CCW holder in my state) reserve the right to use deadly force against them. This is exactly what Zimmerman did. He was attacked, he was virtually defenseless, and used deadly force to stop the attack not knowing how far Martin would go.

This incident is 8 years old now. There is no reason for either of these politicians to use Zimmerman to promote their racial and firearm hatred. Zimmerman had to stay in low cover from all the death threats he received after the verdict. It's irresponsible and immoral to possibly resurrect those emotions in some people that could put Zimmerman in jeopardy of harm or death. So just to shut these worthless F's up, I hope this lawsuit is permitted, and no matter what the award, be enough to stop these crooked politicians from taking advantage of others misfortune for their own selfish advantage.