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

The New York Daily News ^ | July 13, 2013 | Beth Stebner

[2ndDivisionVet]

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.

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.....

[Dallas59]

They are doing it everywhere....

[2ndDivisionVet]

You don't want to know that potentially thousands or hundreds of thousands of people intend violence if a show trial doesn't go their way? Do you live in the hinterlands of Alaska or in a monastery?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

You misread what I wrote.

[Morgana]

*yawn* I’m not worried. The amish will just riot in their own neighborhoods like in LA until the gov. cuts their food stamps via US Mail. By that time there will be a lot of vacant lots, just like there still is in LA.

[x1stcav]

It’s been downhill since 1921 when women were given the vote.

Just saying.

[justa-hairyape]

Did editors go out the door with typewriters?

Typewriters are making a come back thanks to the NSA.

[fabian]

We already know there are millions of welfare bred violent people out there. It is just a mater of time that something sets them off. That seems obvious to me and many...we will have a civil war again...this time the government needy against the free people who have been sucked dry for many years.
I don’t think those idiots deserve headline space on FR.

[Chode]

the nearest group of Travons is 20miles from here...

[vaudine]

Sad to say, you are right about a lot of women. They make emotional, not rational decisions. However, I take after both my grandmothers. Both were smart and stood up for their convictions, especially my German/Italian, Catholic paternal grandmother. She was conservative to the point she would not vote for Catholic JFK, and told me FDR was one of the worst we ever had. 2 of her sons went through WW2 and came home--my father, an enlisted engineer, and my uncle John, a pilot, probably because she prayed for them every day.

vaudine

[bgill]

Someone posted his bail a few days ago so he’s out for now.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Yes, it would. The colors is from my other point — that the message Obama is trying to send is that black teens should not worry about white people shooting them when they go wilding.

[boop]

"From that photo it looks like Mr. White Guilt is primed and ready for a Hoover"

He looks like the Frugal Gourmet, the guy who molested all those kids.

Thought he was dead.

[X-spurt]

I’m sorry, but a big reason kids are so damn out of control is because “some” think it was more enlightened to not give them clear guidance and instead continue to give them grey area outs for poor behavior.

[DannyTN]

When someone clearly marks their post as joking, at the time they post it, I don’t see any reason to consider that “Grey”.

[DannyTN]

When someone clearly marks their post as joking, at the time they post it, I don’t see any reason to consider that “Grey”.

[DannyTN]

In fact the context of the Texas kid's comment was that someone else had jokingly made the comment that he was mentally deranged. And so he replied something to the effect of "Yeah, I'm so mentally deranged, I'm going to go do x. /joking".

There is nothing about that conversation that justifies putting a juvenile in detention for 3 months. It was clear from both the context of the thread and the /joking tag that he put on his own comment that he wasn't really making a threat to do anything. It was just a sarcastic response to a friend and appropriately labeled as such.

[DannyTN]

In fact the context of the Texas kid's comment was that someone else had jokingly made the comment that he was mentally deranged. And so he replied something to the effect of "Yeah, I'm so mentally deranged, I'm going to go do x. /joking".

There is nothing about that conversation that justifies putting a juvenile in detention for 3 months. It was clear from both the context of the thread and the /joking tag that he put on his own comment that he wasn't really making a threat to do anything. It was just a sarcastic response to a friend and appropriately labeled as such.

[X-spurt]

You continue to make my point, over and over and over and over.

A word to the wise is sufficient, dis-continue to dig when you find yourself in a hole.

[epow]

It’s Florida law except in crimes that can end in the death penalty, from what I’ve been told.

You were told wrong unless the FL law has been changed since I moved out of FL in the late 1990's. I was called for jury duty on 2 different occasions while I was there and both juries consisted of 12 jurors.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Then explain this trial.