George Zimmerman, the Florida man infamously acquitted for killing teenager Trayvon Martin after a scuffle in 2012, has been suspended after tweeting images of a topless woman he claims is his ex-girlfriend. 
 
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 The first tweet includes a phone number with a Kentucky area code. A call to the number by the Daily Dot went straight to voicemail, though the voice recorded in the greeting identified herself as Heather. 
 
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 The second tweet included a Yahoo email address, along with accusations of theft. 
 
 Twitter's abusive-behavior policy forbids “inciting others to harass another user,” and tells users that “you may not post intimate photos [...] without the subject's consent.” Those tweets didn’t just violate Twitter’s terms of service, however. They may have broken the law. 
 
 In October, Florida became the latest state to outlaw nonconsensual sexualized images, better known as revenge porn, the act of posting private, intimate images for a public audience against the subject's wishes. Laws against the practice vary by state, but Florida’s statute, which became effective on Oct. 1, bans sharing such images if they’re “sexually explicit.” 
 
 On that count, “this image probably doesn't qualify—it's not quite ‘nude,’’ Dr. Mary Anne Franks, a University of Miami professor who helped create the framework for a number of states’ revenge porn laws, including Florida’s told told the Daily Dot via email. Franks calls the final version of Florida's law “deeply flawed.” 
 
 Zimmerman is aware of that fact, explicitly pointing out that the photos didn’t actually show her as nude. 
 
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 However, Franks said, the fact that Zimmerman tweeted multiple images of Heather might fulfill the “course of conduct” required to violate Florida or federal law against stalking. 
 
 Zimmerman has been in the news for a number of incidents after killing Martin, ranging from being shot by someone with whom he had an “ongoing dispute” to an arrest for aggravated assault to having to apologize for retweeting a photo of Martin’s dead body. 
 
 Even if Zimmerman is never arrested for the tweets, he’s still opened himself up to a civil lawsuit from Heather, Carrie Goldberg, a New York lawyer who specializes in revenge-porn cases, told the Daily Dot. 
 
 “If he, as many abusers do, is publishing false statements about her—in this case related to promiscuity and theft—he could be liable under civil defamation laws, not to mention other privacy laws that may apply,” Goldberg said. 
 
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 George Zimmerman’s Twitter account was suspended Thursday after his social media rants turned into what looked like revenge porn. 
 
 The Florida man acquitted in the fatal 2012 shooting of black teen Trayvon Martin posted nude pictures and contact information of a woman he called “Heather” who he claimed had stolen from him and cheated on him with “a dirty Muslim.” 
 
 Zimmerman, who lists his hometown as Casselberry in the Orlando area, lives in a state that is one of 26 with laws against revenge porn, according to the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. 
 
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 The "@TherealGeorgeZ" account showed two different naked photos and an email address for the woman Thursday afternoon. 
 
 “This is Heather,” the first of two tweets about her read. “She cheated on me with a dirty Muslim.” He added a phone number and told his 15,500 followers, “She’ll sleep with anyone.” 
 
 This tweet surfaced on Zimmerman's feed Thursday afternoon shortly before his account was suspended. (Twitter) 
 
 Minutes later, he continued, “Did I go to far? I won't even mention that she stole a gun and cash from me.” 
 
 Zimmerman, 32, didn’t immediately respond to a voicemail on a number associated with him or a message on Twitter. 
 
 There were no immediate responses to a phone call and an email to the number and address he listed, though a woman’s voicemail said the Daily News had reached “Heather.” 
 
 It wasn’t known whether the tweets broke the state’s anti-cyberharassment law, which went into effect Oct. 1. The law defines sexual cyberharassment as publishing “a sexually explicit image of a person that contains or conveys the personal identification information of the depicted person to an Internet website without the depicted person’s consent, for no legitimate purpose, with the intent of causing substantial emotional distress to the depicted person.” 
 
 Carrie Goldberg, a board member at the Initiative and an Internet privacy and sexual consent attorney, said in an email that the Tweets were "repulsive" but may not amount to a violation of the revenge porn law due to the fact that the pictures don't show what the statute defines as "nudity." Zimmerman, though, could be held liable under the state's coercion, stalking or harassment laws, she said. 
 
 Zimmerman tweeted a different picture of the woman and claimed she stole from him too. (Twitter) 
 
 "Zimmerman's publication of the victim’s personal information like her phone number and email address suggest an intention to incite third parties to contact this woman in a sort of harassment-by-proxy scenario," Goldberg said. "Not only could he be arrested criminally, but this behavior makes a strong case for the victim to obtain an order of protection from family court." 
 
 Officials in the Seminole County Sheriff's Office didn't immediately respond to a request to know whether the authorities are aware of the Tweets or any domestic dispute involving Zimmerman. 
 
 A representative for Twitter said the company doesn’t comment on individual accounts but referred The News to its policy on posting another person’s private information. Twitter’s rules prohibit sharing someone’s personal phone and email addresses, as well as intimate photos taken or distributed without the person’s consent. 
 
 "Twitter should be applauded for so quickly disabling Zimmerman’s account," Goldberg said. "Their hasty response is a testament to huge strides social media companies have made, as a result of advocacy groups like CCRI, in no longer tolerating abuse." 
 
 Zimmerman has trolled on Twitter before in recent months. He retweeted a picture of Martin’s corpse in September and went on a homophobic tirade in which he also called President Obama “racist” in August. 
 
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– Infamous Florida man George Zimmerman has been kicked off Twitter at least temporarily after managing to fit harassment, slut shaming, Islamophobia, misogyny, and bigotry into 140 characters or less. The New York Daily News reports Zimmerman—who was acquitted of killing black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012—tweeted two topless photos of a woman he says is his ex-girlfriend to his more than 15,000 followers on Thursday. "This is Heather. She cheated on me with a dirty Muslim. She'll sleep with anyone," the Daily Dot quotes the first tweet as saying; the tweet included a phone number apparently belonging to Heather. In a second tweet, Zimmerman accused Heather of stealing cash and a gun from him and included an email address. The Daily Dot reports it's clear Zimmerman's tweets violated Twitter's anti-abuse policies—by including personal information and "intimate photos" without consent—but they may also have violated Florida law. In October, Florida became one of 26 states to specifically outlaw "revenge porn," according to the Daily News. A University of Miami law professor tells the Daily Dot the photos may not be "sexually explicit" enough to violate the new law—which she calls "deeply flawed"—but the tweets may still run afoul of anti-stalking laws. Zimmerman is no stranger to Twitter controversy, according to the Daily News. In the past few months alone, he retweeted a photo of Martin's body, went on a homophobic rant, and called Obama a racist. (And he's apparently making some serious enemies.)