Utterly bizarre, yet somehow unsurprising.
George Zimmerman, the self-proclaimed neighborhood watch leader who shot Trayvon Martin, has made his first public comments since the killing, on a website he’s created “to provide an avenue to thank my supporters personally” and solicit funds for legal and living expenses.
One page of that website is a photo album “dedicated to persons whom have displayed their support of Justice for all.” At the time of this writing, the album has just two pictures in it — an image of a poster reading “Justice for Zimmerman” and one of the words “Long Live Zimmerman” spray-painted in white on a red brick wall.
That’s right. George Zimmerman, the guy who once called the cops on a group of kids popping wheelies, is now thanking supporters for vandalizing a building on his behalf.
And it’s not just any building, as it turns out. This particular pro-Zimmerman graffiti was scrawled on the side of Ohio State University’s black cultural center last week, in an incident that the university’s president denounced as racially motivated.
Not long ago, Zimmerman’s defenders leaped to condemn Trayvon Martin over allegations that he once drew on a school locker. It’ll be interesting to see what — if anything — they have to say about Zimmerman’s public embrace of vandalism.
Update | As the blog Plunderbund notes, the “Long Live Zimmerman” graffiti went up on the night of April 4, the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination.
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April 10, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Kirk
Someone must be doing this for him.He does not strike me as one who can critically think ahead of the moment he’s in.He’s probably got a lawyer,pro bono,by now handling his affairs.
I would take a beating before I took a life,of that I’m sure of!
April 10, 2012 at 8:54 pm
ninjanurse
He’s probably on an island in the Carribean, being a Spanish-speaking minority and trying to blend in with fake ID.
April 11, 2012 at 4:23 am
Dan the Man
That long live Zimmerman graffiti message he has posted there was painted on the night of April 4th, it was discovered on April 5th. April 4th is the day that Martin Luther King was slain. This combined with the fact that the graffiti was on a black cultural center means that the graffiti writer was sending the message, “Long Live Zimmerman, slayer of Blacks”. When Zimmerman decided to put that on his website he was giving the message his stamp of approval.
April 14, 2012 at 10:09 am
Jay Knott
The complaint about Zimmerman ‘endorsing’ graffiti shows as little sense of proportion as right-wingers saying that Martin was a burglar or a pot-smoker. Let’s stick to the central issues – can it be proven, under current Florida law, that Martin was murdered? If not, should that law be changed? Is there any evidence of racism? We don’t know the answer to the first question. The second is a matter of opinion. The answer to the final question is – NO.