Posted on 03/29/2012 1:33:25 PM PDT by kristinn
Spike Lee has reached an agreement with the Florida couple forced to flee their home after the film director retweeted their home address and they fled to a hotel to avoid problems associated with the shooting of Trayvon Martin, it was announced Thursday.
Elaine and David McClain, in their 70s, left their Sanford, Fla., home after their address was tweeted by a man who thought he had found the home of George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old who shot Martin, 17. Lee then retweeted the McClains’ address to his followers on Twitter.
The McClains have a son, William George Zimmerman, who is not related to the George Zimmerman who shot Martin and whose arrest is being sought by Martin’s family and civil rights supporters.
“The McClains’ claim is fully resolved,” Matt Morgan, their attorney, said in an email. “Mr. Lee personally called them to give a very heartfelt apology. Further, he agreed to compensate them for their loss and the disruption to their lives.
“The McClains were very moved by Mr. Lee's apology,” Morgan said. “They would like the Lee family to be left in peace,” Morgan said.
Earlier, Morgan had said that the McClains wanted to resolve the issues with Lee quickly to illustrate that whites and blacks could work together to settle their differences without escalating racial tensions
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That's nice that the McClains were paid. Kumbaya.
It's nice that the McLains would like the Lee family to be left in peace. Kumbaya.
Why didn't the McLains ask the Lee family to leave the Zimmerman family in peace? That family is as scared now as the McClains were before they became wealthy.
At least he apologized, for what? Sending out the wrong address for the death threat???
Yeah, he’s a real good egg.
I wish our cases settled this easily!
I've googled my name in the past and hit over 28 other matches to people with the same name match. Probably a lot more out there now. My wife's name was identical to another patient in her doctor's office, and the office was sending the other woman's bills to us for payment. My daughter got married, and now has the same name as her sister-in-law.
Googling is highly inaccurate for finding any one individual, unless you can also identify by pictures and fingerprints. My name has turned up hits for doctors, lawyers, movie producers, artists and decent folk. So far, none are killers or wanted criminals (at least, so far).
Uncle Tom!
Spike be a sellout!
Being taken into custody temporarily is not the same as being arrested. I know what you’re getting at. The libs act like nothing was done to him, and they let him go at the scene. Standard procedure to cuff him for transportation to the police station for questioning, then let go because no basis to hold him further. Close-ups of the video brandished by MSM of George being transported do indeed show trauma to the back of his head, although medics cleaned the blood. MSM has an agenda, and will always hide facts from the public, or will simply ignore the facts.
What social activism? Social activism is when one protests or works for a political campaign. Spike Lee was calling out his lynch mob hommies to do a job. Nice of the LA Times to go to bat for Spike.
Hopefully the real Zimmerman shakes him down to his empty seat at the Knicks games.
Race baiter and leftist hypocrite. Any issues Blacks have had since 1968 have been of their own making.
Fascist pig sent brown shirts to wrong address. Damn. Send over a window repairman.
““The McClains were very moved by Mr. Lee’s apology,” Morgan said. “They would like the Lee family to be left in peace,” Morgan said.
Earlier, Morgan had said that the McClains wanted to resolve the issues with Lee quickly to illustrate that whites and blacks could work together to settle their differences without escalating racial tensions...”
Why, they even offered to help them find the real Zimmerman family and provide some good, strong rope. Racial harmony in our times.
Gee, that’s mighty nice of Lee considering he caused them their problems. Now how about giving the George Zimmerman he was trying to get killed the same benefit of the doubt? Give him his “day in court” and hear his side of the story. If the FL state’s attorney decides no charges shall be filed you know Spike will howl like the rabid racist moonbat he is.
I am laugh so hard I have a headache!
Where’s the Tylenol......
I am laughing so hard I have a headache!
Where’s the Tylenol......
Do The Jeremiah Wright Thing - Spike Lee
For a guy who preached people of different backgrounds should get along and “do the right thing”, he sure has proven himself to be an antisemitic race baiter.
“The tweeting incident involving the McClains pitted privacy rights against social activism and was a sidelight to the furor over the shooting of Martin on Feb. 26....”
Grrrrrrrrrrr......
OK, Spike. I’ve found out where Zimmerman’s hiding. He’s in the LA Times’ executive washroom. Tweet the brown shirts.
Grrrrrrr.........
Just another 1 percenter crapping on the 99 percent.
Bull. The McClain’s have no way of calculating the damages done this soon. This was a political settlement.
But he wears such artsy glasses!
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