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Those tweets -- and all his others -- can't be linked to, because his account was suspended in after he posted semi-nude photographs of his ex-girlfriend. In the captions, he included her personal email address and telephone number and accused her of having sex with a "dirty Muslim.

Now, his online presence consists of his website. Its homepage displays a photograph of a cigar dangling from the fingers of an arm tattooed with "sic vis pacem para bellum" -- Latin for "If you want peace, prepare for war" -- and a pistol tucked into a holster. On the "about" page is a personal recounting of the Martin shooting. Racial conflict and firearms appear to be a recurring theme for Zimmerman. Last August, he teamed up with Florida Gun Supply - a gun store that had publicly declared itself a "Muslim-free zone" - to sell prints of a painting by Zimmerman depicting a Confederate battle flag and the inscription, "The 2nd protects our 1st.

He's also been back in the courtroom several times since the Martin trial. Less than a month after his acquittal, Zimmerman was pulled over for speeding, CNN reported.

According to dashcam footage, he allegedly had a gun on him and the officer said, "Don't play with your firearm, OK? Later in , he was arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault for allegedly pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend. The case was later dropped. Two years later, he was arrested again -- this time for charges of domestic aggravated assault for allegedly throwing a bottle of wine at his girlfriend -- and again the charges were later dropped. Finally, last May , Zimmerman was shot, receiving minor injuries, during a dispute with a motorist named Matthew Apperson.

In , Apperson had called the police in a different dispute, saying Zimmerman had allegedly threatened him by saying, "Do you know who I am? In fact, his legal troubles go back to , when he was arrested twice. First in a domestic dispute that ended with a broken engagement and a restraining order filed against him.

Then, for the battery of an officer after he shoved an undercover agent who was arresting Zimmerman's underage friend for being in a bar. Controversy seems to follow Zimmerman so doggedly that this isn't even his first controversial auction. In Dec. His follow-up painting, named "Angie" after Angela Corey, the special prosecutor who was appointed by Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott to investigate the death of Trayvon Martin, didn't fare so well. It depicted Corey with her fingers pressed against her thumbs and a caption reading, "I have this much respect for the American judicial system.

Regardless of what George Zimmerman hopes for his public image to be, one thing is certain: he's being discussed, fervently. As of early Thursday morning, more than 24, people had used his name in a tweet on Twitter. Skip to content. George Zimmerman, acquitted in the high-profile killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, listens in court, in Sanford, Fla.

Naturally, people are furious. But he has not responded by stepping away from notoriety. Most Read. Horoscopes Daily horoscope for November 13, As the case progressed, in cities across the county rallies calling for "Justice for Trayvon" were held, and everyone from President Barrack Obama to Hollywood stars to cable news personalities jumped into the debate over whether Martin's death was murder or a justifiable use of force by a man fearing for his life.

Shortly after P. He carried a bag of Skittles and an Arizona watermelon juice cooler as he headed along a sidewalk in the Retreat at Twin Lakes townhouse community in Sanford. When George Zimmerman, driving his SUV to Target for an errand, looked out his window he spotted Martin and concluded, as he told police in a phone call, he was "a real suspicious guy.

What is known is that Martin was unknown to Zimmerman, young, wore a hooded sweatshirt, walked slowly in the rain--and, most central to the debates that would later ensue, was black. Asked later that night in a police interview the cause for his suspicion, Zimmerman said, "I've never seen him in the neighborhood.