George Zimmerman says on Twitter that he retweeted photo of …

George Zimmerman has posted a letter on his Twitter account claiming that he didn't intentionally retweet a photo of Trayvon Martin's dead body.

Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in 17-year-old Martin's shooting death, so when a crime scene photo of the dead teen appeared on his Twitter profile in late September many people online were outraged.

In a letter posted Monday, Zimmerman says that the photo in the original tweet was marked as "sensitive" so it didn't automatically display and he retweeted the message, which said "Z-man is a one man army," without seeing the image.

"The image of the body was blocked on my twitter feed and all twitter feeds,"the letter, embedded below, reads. "Until the user chose to click on the blocked image warning it does not show the image. I did not click on the blocked image and preview it prior to re-tweeting it."

A Twitter representative toldThe Daily Dot that his explanation is plausible.

He doesn't apologize in the letter, but Zimmerman does say he doesn't want to relive the night he killed Martin and that he will never tweet images of him or his family.

"As many have learned about me throughout my trial and subsequent events, I hold my Christian values very close," Zimmerman writes. "I believe that me knowingly re-tweeting that image, would not be looked upon favorably by God; therefore I would not do it."

While his profile doesn't show pictures of Martin, he does often mock the time President Barack Obama said "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."

Zimmerman has made headlines several times since his acquittal in July 2013. Aside from run-ins with the law, he's known for tweeting controversial remarks, trolling his critics and posting racially insensitive material.

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