Trayvon Martin shooting: Teen threatens 'mass homicide' on Twitter if George Zimmerman is acquitted

While the nation waits for the jury to reach a decision, some supporting slain teen Trayvon Martin are loudly voicing their opinions as Fla. authorities brace for possible riots.

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Saturday, July 13, 2013, 3:12 PM



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A Zion, Illinois teen known was slapped with felony charges after allegedly saying he'd 'cause a mass homicide' at his high school should George Zimmerman be acquitted.

While six women are deliberating the fate of George Zimmerman behind closed doors, the rest of the world waits with bated breath.

But across the country, others are loudly — and sometimes violently — voicing their opinions on what should happen to the former Neighborhood Watch captain who is charged with the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

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An anonymous YouTube user posted a rant to the site on Friday saying that Zimmerman should have stayed home and watched Disney rather than go out with a gun.


One Chicago-area 15-year-old wrote on Twitter Friday: "If Zimmerman free imam shoot everybody in Zion causing a mass homicide, and ill get away wit it just like Zimmerman (sic)" read the tweet from @Mark12394995.

The News Sun-Times reports that the tweet from the Zion-Benton Township High School sophomore was later deleted, but not before several people reported the student to the FBI.

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A demonstrator wears a shirt with a picture of George Zimmerman as a target during a protest in front of the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center where a jury is deliberating in Zimmerman's trial on July 13 in Sanford, Florida.


Deputy Chief Steve Dumyahn told the paper that there was no credibility to the teen's threat.

"He has no weapons and no access to weapons," he told The Sun Times, adding that the teen was brought into the station for questioning. He was later charged with disorderly conduct.

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The teen later took to Twitter defending his since-deleted tweet, saying things like "im no killer (sic)" and saying he would never really shoot up his school if Zimmerman was acquitted of murder.

The intense trial, which has shoved race relations, gun control, and the controversial Stand Your Ground Law into the spotlight, has many others on edge.

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Demonstrators hold signs outside Seminole County Court where George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial is being deliberated by jurors in Sanford on July 13.

A video of an old man ranting about Zimmerman's decision to carry a gun has also gone viral. In the three-minute clip, the bearded and balding man screaming into the camera. "I don't give a rat's a-as to what's happening. Big macho man, go carry a gun…You should have been home watching g-d--- Disney!"

His problem appears to be not with the racial overtones, but with Zimmerman's decision to carry a gun at all.

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George Zimmerman sits with his defense attorneys during the continuation of jury deliberation on Friday. If convicted of second-degree murder, he faces life in prison.

Meanwhile, city officials in Sanford, Fla., where the trial has taken place, have been taking precautionary steps to prepare for protests or riots should Zimmerman be acquitted.

On his show earlier this week, CNN's Piers Morgan speculated that Zimmerman's possible acquittal could lead to race riots.

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Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in February 2012 after he and Zimmerman got into a confrontation. The teen, who was wearing a hoodie, was walking home from a 7-Eleven carrying iced tea and a bag of Skittles.

"There is a concern that this will create a lot of ill feeling," he said, "particularly in the black community around America. There may possibly be riots."
As the jurors deliberate, groups that are pro-Martin and pro-Zimmerman have gathered around the Seminole County Courthouse, at ideological odds with one another.

"(Zimmerman) deserves some respect and appreciation," 66-year-old Casey David Kole Sr. said about the din of the crowd. "It's a tragedy."
"It's a tragedy that could have been avoided," Patricia Dalton, 60, yelled back at him.

Zimmerman, 29, who identifies as Hispanic, has claimed self-defense in the February 2012 confrontation.

His defense painted Martin as a troubled teenager who confronted the volunteer, who faces second-degree murder charges.

The jury can also find Zimmerman guilty of manslaughter, a lesser charge that would still condemn him to 30 years in prison, or acquit him entirely.

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