George Zimmerman filed a $265 million lawsuit alleging Mayor Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren defamed him.

Polk County, FL – George Zimmerman, the man acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, filed a defamation lawsuit seeking $265 million from Democratic Presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren.The lawsuit was filed in the 10th Judicial Circuit Court on Tuesday and claimed both Presidential candidates defamed Zimmerman in tweets posted on what would have been Martin's 25th birthday, USA Today reported.

Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch leader who fatally shot Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, but was acquitted in a 2013 jury trial.

Martin was visiting his father in Sanford when he encountered Zimmerman, who told police he was out patrolling the neighborhood when he encountered the teen, the Miami Herald reported.