“It recently came to light that director Spike Lee was being sued by an elderly couple in Florida, whose address he incorrectly tweeted as the home of George Zimmerman.

But now Lee is flipping the script.

The director was sued by Elaine McClain and David McClain for negligence, which basically means he failed to exercise reasonable care in the foreseeable harm he caused the couple. On Tuesday, though, Lee’s attorneys filed a motion to dismiss grounded upon what was “foreseeable” by the couple.”* Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, Ana Kasparian and Wes Clark Jr break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/spike-lees-defense-tweet-lawsuit-656118

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