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It turned out to be Elaine and David McClain, who are an elderly couple who have no ties at all to Zimmerman.
So anyway, he settled with them for $10,000 shortly after he pulled down the tweet.
$10,000?
Yeah.
Seems not very much, right?
Well, now they're asking for another $15,000, which again seems small considering in damages, attorney fees and court costs.
They say that they are continuing to receive death threats and hate mail due to continued retweets of Lee's original tweet.
Their address, along with the tweet, is still posted on many websites.
Even though he took it down, you know, stuff stays forever on the Internet.
So again, $25,000.
He can afford a lot more to make this go away.
So I say cough it up.
Well, Spike Lee appeared on Oprah's next chapter and said his actions were stupid.
He said, there's nothing I can say that can defend that.
It was stupid.
Settle for 10 and now they're asking for 15.
Imagine Spike's reaction.
I'm honestly so surprised.
Doesn't it seem like it should be like to make something go away.
What do you think Spike's reaction was?