Acquitted US watchman tweets pic of black teen’s corpse

WASHINGTON

The former neighborhood watchman who was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of an unarmed black teen has again prompted outcry by retweeting an image of the boy’s corpse.

George Zimmerman retweeted the photo during the weekend that was originally posted by Twitter user SeriousSlav, with the caption “Z-Man is a one man army.”

The picture shows Trayvon Martin’s lifeless body lying on the ground as investigators look on at the crime scene.

The image was later removed by the micro blogging site, but not before the Internet was set ablaze by the controversy.

Musician Talib Kweli responded to Zimmmerman’s post by Tweeting “George Zimmerman is online posting pics of Trayvon Martin's dead body right now. Let that sink in America. #blacklivesmatter.”

In response to Twitter’s decision to remove his post, Zimmerman tweeted photos of makeshift wanted dead or alive posters with his likeness and name on them, saying “I wonder when Twitter will take these images down???”

His Twitter account is a hotbed of controversy. His profile photo is that of a painting he did of the confederate flag, seen by some as a symbol of America’s history of black slavery, and other recent tweets are far from savory with him calling some Twitter users “Apes”.

Following the Internet backlash, Zimmerman posted a photo of him lying on a beach, cigar in hand with the caption, “As much as I love owning all you trolls I have to work... On my tan! Tell "Karma" she's worthless, God protects me.“

But this weekend’s posting is not the first time that Zimmerman has boasted about slaying Martin.

In a tweet dated Aug. 27, Zimmerman responded to a Twitter user who threatened to slap him by saying “We all know how it ended for the last moron that hit me. Give it a whirl cupcake.”