George Zimmerman has posted a letter on his Twitter account claiming that he didn’t intentionally retweet a photo of Trayvon Martin’s dead body.
Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in 17-year-old Martin’s shooting death, so when a crime scene photo of the dead teen appeared on his Twitter profile in late September many people online were outraged.
In a letter posted Monday, Zimmerman says that the photo in the original tweet was marked as “sensitive” so it didn’t automatically display and he retweeted the message, which said “Z-man is a one man army,” without seeing the image.
“The image of the body was blocked on my twitter feed and all twitter feeds,” the letter, embedded below, reads. “Until the user chose to click on the blocked image warning it does not show the image. I did not click on the blocked image and preview it prior to re-tweeting it.”
A Twitter representative told The Daily Dot that his explanation is plausible.
He doesn’t apologize in the letter, but Zimmerman does say he doesn’t want to relive the night he killed Martin and that he will never tweet images of him or his family.
Source: Orlando Sentinel | Adrienne Cutway
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