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Seven months after the killing of unarmed high school junior Trayvon Martin, the killers family is on a national media crusade to clear the familys name.

What began as a series of routine media interviews denying that George Zimmerman is a racist blew up into a Twitter rant Monday night. Zimmermans brother, Robert Zimmerman Jr., took to social media after midnight and vowed to make it his lifes work to have one of the Martin family attorneys disbarred. He said he would expose the lawyers and their publicist, one by one, day by day.

I hope GOD grants you a long life so you live to repent for what you have done, Robert Zimmerman Jr. wrote in a tweet directed to Natalie Jackson, one of the lawyers for the slain teens family.

In another, he wrote: My Lifes work = you WILL be held accountable for your words/actions. You AINT seen NOTHIN yet... I will see U disbarred.

The flap underscored the heated rhetoric still notable regarding an incident that polarized the nation, and the extent to which legal advisors in the case were blamed for it. The threats posted online also highlighted the difficulty the Zimmermans have had managing their message, and the defense teams inability to control the client or his family.

Defense attorney Mark OMara said he cringed when he saw a relative of his client acting out on the web, and said the new media tour was launched without George Zimmermans knowledge. His message to Robert Jr: Be careful with my case.

I have been cautious with how we act in this case and now someone with the same last name who does not act with the same constraints is out there and I have no control over him, OMara said. They felt it was time to let the world know that the Zimmerman family is a good family. That goal is a noble goal.

But they do have to be sensitive to the environment in which we are telling this story. No matter what, George is still at risk here. And we still have a dead young man thats fresh on everyones mind. That frustrates me.

The familys media campaign follows months of public relations debacles.

Last month, Zimmermans best friend published a book riddled with errors that offered a new accounting of how Trayvon died. It wound up on the prosecutions evidence list.

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George Zimmerman’s brother’s media tour leads to Twitter tirade in Trayvon case