The New Black Panthers have issued a bounty for the capture of George Zimmerman. The Black Nationalist group says they will take justice into their own hands if the government refuses to act.
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George Zimmerman, a Florida man was acquitted of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin this month. The unarmed teen was walking home one evening in February 2012, wearing a hoodie and carrying a bag of Skittles. George Zimmerman, a member of his neighborhood watch followed Martin because he believed the teen fit the description of burglars that had been causing trouble in his neighborhood.
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The events that follow has split the nation in two. Some have claimed self-defense while others say racial profiling. When Zimmerman and Martin began to fight the altercation ended with a bullet to the heart for Trayvon Martin.
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The not guilty verdict has angered many people all over the country. Some have said if Trayvon Martin was white the verdict would have been guilty. The New Black Panthers have issued a bounty for the capture of George Zimmerman saying if the government was not prepared to carry out justice they will.
During a protest on Saturday, New Black Panther member Mikhail Muhammad announced a $10,000 reward for the capture of George Zimmerman. It is unclear what the New Black Panthers plan to do with George Zimmerman if they capture him or preform what they say will be a citizen's arrest.
"We're going to force our government to do their job properly, and if they don't we will," Muhammad said.
While speaking with a different member of the New Black Panthers a CNN anchor kept asking what the organization planned to do with Zimmerman once they had him. The member danced around the question giving answers that had nothing to do with what was asked.
Muhammad said the group is being supported with financial donations from celebrities and athletes. They hope to raise the reward for Zimmerman's capture to one million dollars by next week.
The Inquisitr reports offering a monetary reward for the capture of a citizen not charged with a crime is a felony in most states.
The Black Panther group of the 1960's and 1970's are opposed to the beliefs of the new Black Panthers. They have condemned their actions against whites, Jews and police officers and according to the Sothern Poverty Law Center's website,
The New Black Panther Party is a virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law enforcement officers. Founded in Dallas, the group today is especially active on the East Coast, from Boston to Jacksonville, Fla. The group portrays itself as a militant, modern-day expression of the black power movement (it frequently engages in armed protests of alleged police brutality and the like), but principals of the original Black Panther Party of the 1960s and 1970s- a militant, but non-racist, left-wing organization - have rejected the new Panthers as a "black racist hate group" and contested their hijacking of the Panther name and symbol.
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