Spike Lee might want to do a little better job investigating before re-tweeting anything again. Thanks to Spike's lack of effort to confirm allegations, and in his zeal to hunt down George Zimmerman, currently in hiding after the shooting of Trayvon Martin, he readily re-tweeted an address initially posted by a Marcus Davonne Higgins claiming it belonged to THE George Zimmerman, to his 240,000 Twitter followers – nice! The address, however, did NOT belong to THE George Zimmerman, but to an elderly couple who have a son named William George Zimmerman, who hadn't lived with them since 1995. The couple, having already received death threats, were forced to leave their home until the mess is straightened out.
Spike, I implore you to take a step back and see that you are becoming the very thing you claim to abhor, acting in the same manner as those you have fought against. You claim that what George Zimmerman did was nothing but vigilante justice, you claim to despise vigilante justice, but it is OK when you want to engage in it? Then it's magically fine and dandy as long as it is for what you deem as the right reason?
How many more victims is this crime going to claim? Do you think the McClain's, the elderly couple who got uprooted from their home, will ever feel safe in it again? Would you?
I don't blame Davonne, the junior detective who obviously possesses far less skill than The Hardy Boys, for initially tweeting the wrong address. Like most average Twitter users, he probably has a small handful of followers, but I do blame you, Spike, for using absolutely no discretion and no common sense in putting the address out to your 240,000 followers without checking the facts. You may have deleted the tweet, but it never should have been posted in the first place.
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