JAY-Z and The Weinstein Company announced a six-part docuseries Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story in March. Based on attorney Lisa Bloom’s book Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It, it chronicles Trayvon Martin’s brief life, his shooting death at the hands of George Zimmerman and Zimmerman’s subsequent acquittal.
When Zimmerman learned the production team working on the docuseries attempted to interview his family, he threatened to “beat JAY-Z” and feed anyone who “fucks” with his parents to “an alligator,” according to The Blast.
It all started two weeks ago when the team — spearheaded by executive producer Michael Gasparro — made unannounced visits to both Zimmerman’s parents and uncle’s home where Zimmerman says they “harassed” his family. He didn’t confirm whether they went on camera to participate in the project.
“Anyone who fucks with my parents will be fed to an alligator,” he reportedly said.
Zimmerman, who shot the 17-year-old Martin five years ago, also said, “I know how to handle people who fuck with me, I have since February 2012,” alluding to the date of Martin’s death (February 26, 2012).
Zimmerman is reportedly bothered that producers allegedly paid his ex-wife to appear in the documentary but refuse to pay any of his other family members.
Considering the recent Harvey Weinstein sex scandal and Bloom’s contentious working relationship with the Hollywood titan (she previously represented him and admitted that decision was a “colossal mistake” in an interview with Vanity Fair), it’s unclear if the project will ever see the light of day.
Of all the people that get shot and killed every day in America, why can’t George Zimmerman be one of them?
AMEN.
Zimmerman was innocent. All he did wrong was approach Trayvon, but it was not illegal. Trayvon technically did have the right to react to being followed, but there are multiple witnesses and audio evidence proving that Zimmerman yelled for help and begged him to stop, indicating clear surrender, and Trayvon persisted in the beating. Zimmerman did have reason to believe that his life was in danger at this point and was 100% within his rights to use deadly force once that became the case. The media has ruined a good man’s life because they are trying to divide and conquer black and white people instead of letting us come together and realize that they are the real enemy. Zimmerman was collateral damage in their mission to subvert the public, and all you idiots who think he only got off because he was a white guy (false) who killed a minority, congratulations, you are all being willingly programmed by people who couldn’t care less about you.
That’s not true it is illegal for someone to follow another person around in a public place with the intent to intimidate, harass, annoy, or alarm that person the issue is intent Martin obviously wasn’t looking for Zimmerman thats illogical. Zimmerman also made the approach we don’t know what Martin was thinking Zimmerman looks like a rapist and if I was 17 and being followed and someone who’s not a police officer trys to talk to me from car then follows me after I clearly want him to leave me alone I’d probably be ready to fight. If Zimmerman wanted to help with neighborhood watch he should followed Martin til he saw an illegal act being done then called the authorities but your lying or being bias if you don’t believe that the situation isnt Zimmerman fault he made contact first and the court verdict doesn’t mean the truth it’s about what you can prove and know one can prove Zimmerman started his day wanting to kill someone I personally don’t believe that but he did and it is his fault in Philadelphia Pa shooting someone who is unarmed and not bring on your property Zimmerman would be in jail but Florida is different right is right wrong is wrong and the law is the tray area in between every law isn’t a good law
Yeah, that’s why I said Trayvon was still within his rights when he initiated contact with Zimmerman, and I think that had such a case gone to court that they would have agreed. But just because Trayvon was within his rights does not mean that Zimmerman didn’t have the right to defend himself once he begged Trayvon to stop and he didn’t stop. I get that you people have been told a very biased version of this story that gives you sympathy for Travyon and not Zimmerman and that your cognitive dissonance makes it very difficult for you to even consider that it is you who is wrong, but you need to think outside the box for a moment. Would you be just as angry if all the circumstances were the same, but it was a black guy who killed a young white boy? Be honest.
Thank you for posting all this so I don’t have to. The amount of people that don’t know the facts in this case are astonishing.
No one knows the “facts” all of what youre saying/reading isn’t 1st hand lol. So if Jay Z wants to make a documentary he can, because the information he has is just as bias as what you believe.
You can believe that it was zimmerman calling for help all you want, but had it been zimmerman on the bottom getting beat up and used his weapon to fire why was there no blood splatter on his clothes? Riddle me that…..the voice recording and the the dude recording in the dark said it sounded like treyvon calling for help, so i dont know what evidence you saw or heard.
Let’s not forget that Zimmerman was told repeatedly to remain in his car by the dispatcher that he initially called to report Trayvon. He made the decision to play cop and instigated the entire confrontation tha lead to the murder. Would Trayvon have been found innocent if he beat Zimmerman to death believing that his life was in danger? Probably not, the courts would have thrown that boy in prison like they do most black males. Zimmerman isn’t innocent, don’t believe that hype. That’s the same dude who also beat his wife and threatened to kill her. The man is a piece of shit.
Talk about black on black violence Jay Z. All those innocent lives lost daily but you want to treat Trayvon Martin like he was a saint. Hypocrisy…
Zimmerman couldn’t even beat a 140lb teenager.. Feed yourself to an alligator..
He didn’t? Could’ve fooled me. He’s still alive and FREE. Where’s the 140lb teenager? Wormfood
The craziest part of all this is zimmerman ain’t even white. Just do your research. He has mixed heritage. His mother is black peruvian and his father his white with german descent. When the media are portraying the murder of trayvon martin as a white on black crime issue it really pisses me off cause it ain’t about that. There was a failure in the justice system when they found zimmerman innocent. But there was also a HUGE failure in the medias and all the people and the celebrities who broadcasted this news as a racial issue between whites and blacks since zimmerman ain’t white ! He’s even described as hispanic on his voter registration form.
You are perhaps the stupidest person to have ever left a comment on the internet.
Actually hes spot on
2pac was named after a peruvian
This is the #1 problem in our society today. People with wrong facts calling people with the right facts stupid. The windfall of social media propaganda :/
Learn the facts u fuckin idiot
A Hispanic male kills black teen and naturally it’s white peoples fault smfh
Jay-Z got killers on his payroll, they’ll murder this fat ass!
+1
Ayo, just to be clear, since people keep focussing on his race: people don’t blame white people for what Zimmerman did, they blame George fucking Zimmerman for what Zimmerman did.
What hole were you living in during the coverage of the case??
That “hole” gave birth to you and raised you. Show her some respect.
Ouch, swing and a miss.
Keep talking crazy Zim and you will get shot! Have 99 problems but don’t make Jay-z One, hit me! hahaha
Shame on the elitist pig Jay-Z, working with a former n@z! collabortator for this exploitation documentary. How is this criminal, drug dealer, attempted murderer making an anti-police documentary about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, when Jay-Z stabbed an unarmed man almost to death over money. Boycott this piece of exploitative trash, Jay-Z doesn’t need to make money off the death of a black man shot by a white man. However it would be great if someone who wasn”t a criminal made a documentary on the attempted murder of Lance Rivera and how the criminal Jay-Z got away with the stabbing and tied it to how Zimmerman walked free along with Jay-Z. And now Jay-Z is exploiting this young man’s death to add some figures to his huge bank account
Why are you on this website?
Well I am here because I like hiphop,, and why I am commenting on this particular piece of “news” is because I don’t like Jay-Z, I don’t like n@z!s, and I don’t like people who work with n@z!s. Bottom line; Jay-Z is working with a n@zi collaborator to exploit the death of a black male and make money off the tragedy.
But did Un die, tho? Did corporations rally around Jay Z and donate money to him and stand behind his presumed innocence? Zimmerman b!tch ass got off for murder, he’s running his f!cking mouth threatening to kill somebody else, and you’re okay with that, huh? Gtfo off this site, and dont ever come back.
So the standard is murder? attempted murder doesn’t matter? what about the murder of kate steinle? you people make me laugh
I got a bottle of champagne on ice for the day when this fat fuck kicks the bucket. Fuck George Zimmerman. ” I know how to handle people who fuck with me” spoken like the piece of shit that he is. fuck this dude and anyone who supports him.
Try something and there’ll be a bag on your head in all hoods. Punk a$$ zimmerboy
Someone shoulda shot this fat piece of shit years ago somebody cut some bacon off that fat cabbage pickers back already
LMAO @ Georgie…. Jay-Z shot his own brother, what u think he gonna do to you?
Try to have sex with him like he does with all those other dudes.
Jay-Z is soft af but i have full confidence he would beat Zimmermans ass up and down the block.
This documentary needs to be released, Jay-Z and his other partners need to buy out Weinstein’s stake in this project and then release it on their own, preferably to something like Netflix, Hulu, where it can get to a lot of people quickly without dealing with mainstream theater chains.
i dont like zimmermann but i would be pissed if people were messing with my family too anyone would be
I don’t think J C worried about it it’s all about trying to get money anyway probably already forgot about it.. besides Jay-Z could wipe them out if you wanted to