George Zimmerman has filed a defamation lawsuit against Sen. Warren and Pete Buttigieg over tweets marking Trayvon Martin's birthday.
Zimmerman’s lawsuit was filed by his lawyer, conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman.on behalf of Zimmerman, this one a $100 million lawsuit against the dead teenager’s family and others who were involved in the hard-fought case that divided the nation.
In that suit, Klayman claimed the lawyer for Martin’s parents, Benjamin Crump, defamed Zimmerman in his book,Martin, who lived in Miami, was killed on Feb. 26, 2012, while he was walking to his father’s girlfriend’s home in a gated community in Sanford, a city near Orlando. Zimmerman, who regularly patrolled the development, encountered the unarmed black teenager as he was returning from a 7-Eleven where he had purchased a package of Skittles and anThere is no dispute that Zimmerman fatally shot Martin. But state prosecutors contended that Zimmerman racially profiled the hoodie-clad Martin and continued to tail the teenager even after a police dispatcher told him that was not necessary.
Zimmerman’s lawyers claimed he shot the teenager in self-defense after Martin jumped him and beat him up. His acquittal sparked protests nationwide. The Justice Department decided not to bring a civil rights case against Zimmerman.
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