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Twitter was up to its usual tricks last night, churning out witty responses to an issue of national interest. Shellie Zimmerman, wife of infamous neighborhood sniper George Zimmerman, has officially filed for divorce, just days after going on national TV to announce that she has to think about staying married to him. Well, that didn’t…

George Zimmerman’s wife doesn’t know if she wants to stay married to him. Shellie Zimmerman told “Good Morning America” that she has to “think about” whether or not they can move forward together after a nightmarish 18 months. She pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor perjury charge for lying about the couple’s finances during a…

Juror B29 is facing considerable backlash for saying “George Zimmerman got away with murder” because she is the juror who changed her vote from second-degree murder to acquittal. Most of the respondents on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram believe that the lone minority on the George Zimmerman murder trial could have held out and created a…

President Obama and attorney general Eric Holder of the Justice Department are mired in a no-win situation. They are being asked — no, make that an ear-piercing demand — by the public to indict overzealous and racist neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on civil rights charges. The problem is this: Obama and Holder and the…

Bombastic and bodacious basketball analyst Charles Barkely proffered yet another bold statement: He agrees with the George Zimmerman verdict of not guilty. “I agreed with the verdict,” Barkley said Thursday on CNBC’s “Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo”. “I feel sorry that young kid got killed. But they didn’t have enough evidence to charge him (George Zimmerman).”…

Four jurors in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial are trying to disown infamous Juror B37 after she made questionable statements during an extensive, exclusive interview on CNN. Juror B37, who had and quickly lost her bid for a tell-all book deal about her experience during the Zimmerman trial, admitted that she identified with the…

Lance Gross penned a very interesting open letter to George Zimmerman in the aftermath of the “not guilty” verdict the former neighborhood watch captain managed to get for admittedly killing unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman’s exoneration touched off impassioned protests and marches coast to coast. Gross’ letter was but the latest in a…

The similarities in the murders of Trayvon Martin and Emmitt Till are stark and eerie: Two young black teenagers, some sixty years apart, made innocent trips to small town stores in the Deep South — and were never seen by their parents again. Both boys were both devoured by cowards. The verdict in the George…

Relieved that he was exonerated for killing Trayvon Martin, but disgusted that he was charged with murder in the first place, George Zimmerman said he is considering law school in order to help people wrongly accused of crimes like himself. Zimmerman, 29, was found not guilty in a case that sparked a national debate on…

From the perspective of millions, George Zimmerman was shockingly set free by a jury for asserting his “Stand Your Ground” rights. But another Floridian, Marissa Alexander, was recently put away in prison for 20 years because she fired a bullet into a wall to scare off her husband from beating or killing her, setting off…

A colorful sea of protest marches, spontaneous rallies and at least one riot popped off in major cities across the country in the aftermath of the George Zimmerman “not guilty” verdict by six women in Sanford, Fla. Many people of different ethnicities took to the streets to vent their frustration, express their shock at the…

Many celebrities and other citizens are left to rifle through the emotional rubble in the aftermath of the George Zimmerman verdict to try to locate some vestige of sense out of the trial that captivated an entire nation for the past month. Celebs and others are making comparisons — rightly or wrongly — between the…

Trayvon Martin’s mother and father, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, have to feel that their hearts were ripped out of his chest for the second time in a year-and-a-half after the all-female jury found George Zimmerman innocent of both second-degree murder and manslaughter charges. However, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton wanted to thank many people…

Twitter was set aflame with impassioned reactions to George Zimmerman being exonerated of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the admitted shooting death of teen Trayvon Martin inside a gated community in Sanford, Fla., in Feburary 2012. A torrent of emotions gushed out into cyberspace from all over the country, including sentiments spilling onto social…

George Zimmrman was found “not guilty” by the six woman jury in the second-degree murder trial. The neighborhood watch volunteer was exonerated of both second-degree murder as well as manslaughter, as was predicted by legal experts. Zimmerman is now a free man and was told by the judge that he has no further business with…

The jury in the George Zimmerman trial have probably ruled out second-degree murder as an option of conviction, according to CNN. The reason for this assessment is this: jurors in the murder trial of George Zimmerman have asked Judge Debra Nelson for clarification on the charge of manslaughter Saturday evening as they deliberate into the…

A stunning array of celebrities took to social media to demand justice for the slain teen Trayvon Martin as the jury began deliberations in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial. The likes of Miley Cyrus, Gabrielle Union, Christina Milian, Amber Rose, Lorenz Tate, basketball stars, football players, reality stars and others blacked out their Twitter…

While the majority of the watchers of the George Zimmerman second-degree trial are legitimately interested in justice being served, no matter what side they are on, there are those who chose to take this time to mock the extreme tragedy that is the death of a 17-year-old, college bound, aeronautics aspiring students from Miami named…

Now it’s the defense’s turn. George Zimmerman defense lawyer Mark O’Mara proceeded to try to poke holes in the prosecution’s case that the “cop wanna-be” Zimmerman acted out of “malice,” “ill will” and “hatred” when he tracked down Trayvon Martin in the gated community in Sanford, Fla., initiated a confrontation and then shot the teen…

Celebrities have been just as transfixed by the explosive George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial as the rest of the nation, spellbound by the emotional highs and low that comes with real life drama. Despite the extremely inflammatory nature of the trial, some celebs took to social media to share their thoughts about the end of…