Spike Lee: what was his point?

I suppose it's a good thing he apologized for tweeting an elderly couple's address. Of course, it did take long enough. Is he going to compensate them at all for having to flee their home and stay at a hotel? At the very least, I think Spike Lee should compensate them for hotel costs, and any additional security concerns this couple has. But more than that, what was the point? Let's say he had "correctly" tweeted Zimmerman's address. Was he advocating that someone collect that Black Panther bounty? Was he sending it out for a movie style team of hitmen to go get him? Why tweet an address anyway? I mean, he tweets "Justice in court", but the implication of tweeting an address is not, wait until his fair day in court.  Otherwise, wouldn't he have tweeted the court address so the public could follow the case (eventually)?  Read the original here.

Spike Lee apologizes to elderly Florida couple
By Kerry Picket
March 28, 2012, 10:25PM

Washington Times

Filmmaker Spike Lee apologized to David and Elaine McClain of Sanford, Florida on Wednesday night after re-tweeting their address out to his 250,000 followers last week. Mr. Lee thought the McClain's address belonged to George Zimmerman, the 28 year old man who fatally shot 17 year old Trayvon Martin last month (background here). In a tweet Mr. Lee wrote:

"I Deeply Apologize To The McClain Family For Retweeting Their Address.It Was A Mistake.Please Leave The McClain's In Peace.Justice In Court."

The McClains were forced to flee their home and stay at a local Sanford hotel after their address was tweeted out to hundreds of thousands of twitter followers.