These Men Dressed Up as Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman For Halloween

And if that doesn't turn your stomach, then this might: the costume includes blackface and a bloodstained hoodie.

By Jamilah King Oct 28, 2013

Two Florida men decided to dress up as Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman for Halloween. And if that sentence didn’t turn your stomach, then this might: the costume includes blackface and a bloodstained hoodie.

Caitlin Cimeno uploaded the photo to Facebook on Friday that shows Greg Simeno, 22, dressed up as Zimmerman and wearing a T-shirt with the title "Neighborhood Watch" scrawled across the front. William Filene, 25, is dressed up as Martin, complete with blackface and wearing the bloodstained hoodie. The photo was uploaded with the message, "Happy Halloween from Zimmerman & trayvon." And there was a smiley face involved.

The costume is obviously playing on all the tropes of black criminality that echoed throughout Zimmerman’s trial and eventual equittal for mudering the unarmed, 17-year-old Martin. But the Smoking Gun dug up some background on the duo and found that Filene has quite a rapsheet, including a recent arrest for grand theft auto. And there’s more:

In August, Cimeno also posted a photo of an African American girl wearing a t-shirt reading "Black Girls Rock." In her accompanying caption, Cimeno wrote, "First of all, sorry Hun but mommy lied to you & secondly if I was wearing a shirt that said something like the truth ‘white girls rock’ I would be stared at and called a racist cracker."

(h/t The Smoking Gun)