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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 955771" data-attributes="member: 12952">The mass dissemination of the address on Edgewater Circle in&nbsp; Sanford--the Florida city where Martin was shot to death last&nbsp; month--took flight last Friday when director <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/marcus-higgins-tweets?page=0" target="_blank">Spike Lee retweeted</a> a tweet containing Zimmerman’s purported address to his 240,000 followers.<a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/marcus-higgins-tweets?page=1" target="_blank">The original tweet</a>&nbsp; was sent to Lee (and numerous other celebrities like Will Smith, 50&nbsp; Cent, and LeBron James) last Friday afternoon by Marcus Davonne Higgins,&nbsp; a 33-year-old Los Angeles man who uses the online handle “maccapone.”&nbsp; Higgins included the direction, “EVERYBODY REPOST THIS.”Higgins’s dissemination of Zimmerman’s purported Edgewater Circle&nbsp; address was not, however, limited to cyberspace. At a protest rally last&nbsp; Thursday in an L.A. park near his Crenshaw home, <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/marcus-higgins-tweets?page=4" target="_blank">Higgins held a sign</a> containing Zimmerman’s name, address, and phone number.Except, of course, none were accurate.The man who shot Martin is George Michael Zimmerman. Higgins has repeatedly identified him as “George W. Zimmerman.”A check of Zimmerman’s residential history shows no connection to the&nbsp; Edgewater Circle property, which is about four miles from his actual&nbsp; home in Sanford.Elaine McClain identified William George Zimmerman as her son, noting&nbsp; that he has not lived at the Edgewater Circle residence for seven years. When told that Twitter posts containing her address continued to pour in&nbsp; this evening, an exasperated Elaine McClain remarked, “Maybe we should&nbsp; get a lawyer and send a cease and desist letter to Spike Lee.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 955771, member: 12952"] The mass dissemination of the address on Edgewater Circle in Sanford--the Florida city where Martin was shot to death last month--took flight last Friday when director [URL='http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/marcus-higgins-tweets?page=0']Spike Lee retweeted[/URL] a tweet containing Zimmerman’s purported address to his 240,000 followers. [URL='http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/marcus-higgins-tweets?page=1']The original tweet[/URL] was sent to Lee (and numerous other celebrities like Will Smith, 50 Cent, and LeBron James) last Friday afternoon by Marcus Davonne Higgins, a 33-year-old Los Angeles man who uses the online handle “maccapone.” Higgins included the direction, “EVERYBODY REPOST THIS.” Higgins’s dissemination of Zimmerman’s purported Edgewater Circle address was not, however, limited to cyberspace. At a protest rally last Thursday in an L.A. park near his Crenshaw home, [URL='http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/marcus-higgins-tweets?page=4']Higgins held a sign[/URL] containing Zimmerman’s name, address, and phone number. Except, of course, none were accurate. The man who shot Martin is George Michael Zimmerman. Higgins has repeatedly identified him as “George W. Zimmerman.” A check of Zimmerman’s residential history shows no connection to the Edgewater Circle property, which is about four miles from his actual home in Sanford. Elaine McClain identified William George Zimmerman as her son, noting that he has not lived at the Edgewater Circle residence for seven years. When told that Twitter posts containing her address continued to pour in this evening, an exasperated Elaine McClain remarked, “Maybe we should get a lawyer and send a cease and desist letter to Spike Lee.” [/QUOTE]

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