'$10,000 For Zimmerman's Head' Before Verdict

‘If you kill my damn baby, we’re going to kill your damn baby’

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Drew Zahn

Now that George Zimmerman has been found not guilty in the murder trial of black teenager Trayvon Martin, threats that some may take “justice” – or vengeance as the case may be – into their own hands become cause for concern.

New York Giants footballer Victor Cruz, for example, tweeted after the verdict was announced, “Zimmerman doesn’t last a year before the hood catches up to him.”

Atlanta Falcons footballer Roddy White followed up with a similar tweet, “All them jurors should go home tonight and kill themselves for letting a grown man get away with killing a kid.”

Though both players later apologized, the tweets reflect upon the words of black activist Mikhail Muhammad, who claimed last year he had professional athletes’ and celebrities’ financial backing in putting a $10,000 bounty on Zimmerman’s head.

While distributing “wanted dead or alive” posters at a press conference in Jacksonville, Fla., Muhammad, the southern regional director of the New Black Panther Party, stated, “The heat is on [Zimmerman]. He’s never going to be able to sleep peacefully. The family of George Zimmerman must understand, a life for a life, a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. If you kill my damn baby, we’re going to kill your damn baby.”

Muhammad also launched into a tirade of racial epithets directed at Zimmerman.

“We investigated and we found out the facts that Trayvon had been assassinated by a wicked, white beast, who today is talking about he’s a Hispanic. And so we’re not going to go along with that. We don’t care ’cause his father’s a Jew. He’s a no good Jew,” Muhammad said. “To sit before the world, George Zimmerman, and try to justify the brutal assassination and murder of Trayvon Martin, an innocent 17-year-old, and for white America to be upset about the involvement of the New Black Panther Party, so we put this $10,000 bounty reward on the head of George Zimmerman to force the United Snakes, it’s the snakes government, to do their job. And since they don’t wanna do their job, we’re mobilizing 10,000 men, black men in tri-states of Georgia, Florida and Alabama. We want justice for Trayvon; that’s all we came for.”

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