George Zimmerman gained notoriety in 2012 when he shot unarmed teen Trayvon Martin and in the subsequent trial was acquitted of the murder. The acquittal helped give rise to the eventual Black Lives Matter movement.
Denise Fergus, the mother of murdered two-year-old James Bulger, is “disgusted” by an Academy Award nomination for a film about the 1993 abduction, torture, and slaying of her son by two ten-year-olds.