This is what you might call peak trolling.
Before the gun that George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin was pulled from an online auction for a second time Friday, one bidder made the best offer.
Under the screen name "Racist McShootFace," an online user submitted a bid of $65 million for Zimmerman's gun.
The website, United Gun Group, later showed that that user's account had been deleted, according to several media reports. Bidding for the firearm ended Friday morning.
Zimmerman, 32, who identifies as Hispanic, claimed self-defense after his arrest for the murder of Martin, an unarmed African-American 17-year-old, in Sanford, Florida, in 2012. At the time, Martin had been staying with his father in a gated community, where prosecutors said Zimmerman racially profiled and followed the teen before the shooting.
Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder a year later and avoided federal civil-rights charges, sparking what became the national Black Lives Matter protest movement and straining race relations.
—James Garner (@im_jamesgarner) May 13, 2016
—thriftymaven (@thriftymaven) May 13, 2016
—United Gun Group (@UnitedGunGroup) May 12, 2016