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George Zimmerman, the man who was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Central Florida, was kicked off Tinder after he allegedly created a fake dating profile. (Getty Images)

George Zimmerman, the man who was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, is apparently on the market.

However, Tinder and Bumble will not be helping him with his quest.

Zimmerman, 35, allegedly went under the name Carter on Tinder, according to screen grabs of his dating profile that were obtained by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Carter described himself as self-employed and asa Liberty University graduate who was looking for carefree fun. His profile claimed he liked to be outdoors and enjoyed fishing.

I love adventure not into huge crowds, his profile stated, according to the screenshots. Im also down for a quiet night with Longhorn take out.

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Tinder said in a statement that they removed the profile from its plaform.

At Tinder, we take our users safety very seriously and our team has removed this profile from our platform, Tinder said in a statement.

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We utilize a network of industry-leading automated and manual moderation and review tools, systems and processes and spend millions of dollars annually to prevent, monitor and remove bad actors who have violated our Community terms and guidelines, the statement continued.

This is not the first time Zimmerman has beenkicked off a dating app. In December, Bumble blocked and banned himtwice, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

"George Zimmerman was blocked and banned in December 2018 when we first discovered his profile and we have blocked and banned him again after we were informed by our users that he had created a new unverified profile, a Bumble spokesperson said.

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Lets get coffee and cake pops Im looking for a mature and fun woman thats ready to be loved and respected the way she deserves and is able to reciprocate, Zimmerman wrote on his Bumble profile.

Zimmerman, a onetime neighborhood watch volunteer, fatally shot Martin, the 17-year-oldunarmed black teenager who was staying at the gated townhouse community in Sanford where Zimmerman livedin 2012. He was acquitted of criminal charges in 2013.

Tinder did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Fox News Nicole Darrah contributed to this report.

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George Zimmerman the man who was acquitted of murder charges in the shooting death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in 2012 has been banned from Tinder.

A spokesperson for Tinder told the Huffington Post on Sunday that Zimmerman's profile had been deleted, citing user safety.

"At Tinder, we take our users' safety very seriously and our team has removed this profile from our platform," the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson did not elaborate on why Zimmerman was removed from the dating platform.

Screen grabs from Zimmerman's Tinder profile were published by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay on April 17.

The screen grabs show Zimmerman's bio, which said: "I'm looking for carefree, fun! I love the outdoors, fishing camping and hiking. I love adventure not into huge crowds. I'm also down for a quiet night with Longhorn take out."

Zimmerman's profile was removed from Tinder months after Bumble banned him from its platform in December.

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He was banned again from the cite recently after creating an unverified profile, a Bumble spokesperson told CNN.

"We have thousands of moderators working tirelessly with our users to make Bumble the safest and most empowering social networking platform and this is another example of those efforts," the spokesperson said.

Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder in 2013 for Martin's death.

In 2015, he was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and domestic violence, though prosecutors did not file charges.

In 2017, he threatened to "beat" Jay-Z over the rapper's docuseries about Martin. In 2018 he was accused of stalking a private investigator who contacted him on behalf of producers behind Jay-Z's docuseries.

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In this July 9, 2013, file photo, George Zimmerman leaves the courtroom for a lunch break at his trial in Seminole Circuit Court, in Sanford. Joe Burbank Orlando Sentinel via Associated Press

If George Zimmerman wants to meet women, hes likely going to have to do it the old fashioned way: at a club, bar or dog park.

Because it seems the dating apps are onto him.

The former volunteer neighborhood watchman who was acquitted of killing unarmed Miami teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, was kicked off popular hookup app Tinder this week.

Tampas Creative Loafing reported spotting Carter on Wednesday and was able to snap screengrabs of his now defunct profile full of photos in various situations. There he is, grinning with his Rottweiler, then again in mirrored sunglasses with no shirt chatting on the phone.

Carter described himself as a self-employed consultant looking for carefree fun. His alias enjoyed hiking, fishing, quiet nights and takeout from Longhorn Steakhouse.

Alert users reported the fake profile and Tinder took action.

At Tinder, we take our users safety very seriously and our team has removed this profile from our platform, read a statement Thursday. We utilize a network of industry-leading automated and manual moderation and review tools, systems and processes and spend millions of dollars annually to prevent, monitor and remove bad actors who have violated our Community Guidelines and Terms of Use from our app.

Zimmerman was also banned from another dating app, Bumble, reported the Orlando Sentinel.

Twice.

George Zimmerman was blocked and banned in December 2018 when we first discovered his profile and we have blocked and banned him again after we were informed by our users that he had created a new unverified profile, reads a statement from a Bumble spokesperson. We have thousands of moderators working tirelessly with our users to make Bumble the safest and most empowering social networking platform and this is another example of those efforts.

Since his acquittal, Zimmerman hasnt exactly kept a low profile: The 35 year old, who now resides in Apopka, Florida, in Orange County, has remained in the headlines after various brushes with the law.

Just in May of last year, he was in court over a misdemeanor stalking charge after he made threats to a private investigator, telling him he would feed him to an alligator. Jay Z, who was working on a documentary about the murder, even came under attack.

Back in December 2017, when he got wind of the rappers project, Rest in Power, Zimmerman even threatened to feed the music star to an alligator if he tried to interview his family. I know how to handle people who f--k with me, he reportedly said at the time. I have since February 2012.

And he wonders why hes still single.

The Virginia natives divorce from Shellie Zimmerman was finalized in January 2016. His ex filed for divorce in September 2013, two months after her then husband was acquitted in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Martin.

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In this Sept. 13, 2016, file photo, George Zimmerman looks at the jury as he testifies in a Seminole County courtroom in Orlando, Fla. Zimmerman, the ex-neighborhood watch volunteer who killed an unarmed black teen in Florida in 2012 has been banned from the dating app Tinder.(Photo: Red Huber / AP)

Miami The ex-neighborhood watch volunteer who killed an unarmed black teen in Florida in 2012 has been banned from the dating app Tinder.

An emailed statement from Tinder cited users safety as a reason for removing George Zimmermans profile.

An article by Tampa, Florida, weekly Creative Loafing says Zimmerman used a fake name on the dating app.

Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting of Trayvon Martin on the grounds of self-defense.

He has had several run-ins with the law, including a 2015 arrest after he was accused of throwing a wine bottle at his girlfriend. The case was dropped.

In November he entered a no contest plea to resolve a charge of stalking a private investigator associated with a documentary on Martin.

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Demonstrators outside the Seminole County Courthouse react after hearing the verdict of not guilty in the trial of George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)Ad Policy

A jury has found George Zimmerman not guilty of all charges in connection to death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. But while the verdict came as a surprise to some people, it makes perfect sense to others. This verdict is a crystal-clear illustration of the way white supremacy operates in America.

Throughout the trial, the media repeatedly referred to an all-woman jury in that Seminole County courtroom, adding that most of them were mothers. That is truebut so is that five of the six jurors were white, and that is profoundly significant for cases like this one. We also know that the lone juror of color was seen apparently wiping a tear during the prosecutions rebuttal yesterday. But that tear didnt ultimately convince her or the white people on that jury that Zimmerman was guilty of anything. Not guilty. Not after stalking, shooting and killing a black child, a child that the defense insultingly argued was armed with concrete.

In the last few days, Latinos in particular have spoken up again about Zimmermans race, and the white Hispanic label especially, largely responding to social media users and mass media pundits who employed the term. Watching Zimmerman in the defense seat, his sister in the courtroom, and his mother on the stand, one cant deny the skin color that informs their experience. They are not white. Yet Zimmermans apparent ideologyone that is suspicious of black men in his neighborhood, the assholes who always get away is one that adheres to white supremacy. It was replicated in the courtroom by his defense, whose team tore away at Rachel Jeantel, questioning the young woman as if she was taking a Jim Crowera literacy test. A defense that, during closing, cited slave-owning rapist Thomas Jefferson, played an animation for the jury based on erroneous assumptions, made racially coded accusations about Trayvon Martin emerging out of the darkness, and had the audacity to compare the case of the killing of an unarmed black teenager to siblings arguing over which one stole a cookie.

When Zimmerman was acquitted today, it wasnt because hes a so-called white Hispanic. Hes not. Its because he abides by the logic of white supremacy, and was supported by a defense teamand a swath of societythat supports the lingering idea that some black men must occasionally be killed with impunity in order to keep society-at-large safe.

Media on the left, right and center have been fanning the flames of fear-mongering, speculating that peopleand black people especiallywill take to the streets. That fear-mongering represents a deep white anxiety about black bodies on the streets, and echoes Zimmermans fears: that black bodies on the street pose a public threat. But the real violence in those speculations, regardless of whether they prove to be true, is that it silences black anxiety. The anxiety that black men feel every time they walk outside the doorand the anxiety their loved ones feel for them as well. That white anxiety serves to conceal the real public threat: that a black man is killed every twenty-eight hours by a cop or vigilante.

People will take to the streets, and with good reason. Theyll be there because they know that, yes, some people do always get awayand it tends to be those strapped with guns and the logic of white supremacy at their side.

The NAACP will seek the Department of Justice's intervention in the Zimmerman case. Read John Nichols's report.

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