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'Racist McShootface' bid $65 million for George Zimmerman's gun

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George Zimmerman listens to the judge during his first-appearance hearing in Sanford, Florida November 19, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel

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.

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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.

 

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