Story highlights The case would be against a homeowner's association, says attorney Daryl Parks 
 
 Demonstrations are held in Washington, D.C., Virginia and Florida 
 
 Zimmerman's lawyer and former Gov. Jeb Bush say "stand your ground" doesn't apply in this case 
 
 Police say evidence and testimony on the night prohibited an arrest 
 
 Attorneys for the family of an unarmed Florida teen shot to death last month plan to pursue a civil case against a homeowner's association, the family's lawyer said Saturday. 
 
 Daryl Parks, attorney for the family of Trayvon Martin, spoke to board members of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) about the case. 
 
 He said there is evidence that the Twin Lakes homeowner's association told residents who saw suspicious activity to call George Zimmerman if they could not contact the police, according to an NABJ statement. 
 
 Martin, 17, was killed February 26 as he walked to his father's fiancee's house in Sanford, Florida, after a trip to the convenience store. Police say he was shot by Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who says he was acting in self-defense. 
 
 Martin was unarmed, carrying a bag of Skittles candy and an iced tea, according to police. 
 
 Protesters upset about Martin's death took to streets in cities across the country Saturday, with some questioning why Zimmerman has not been arrested. Other protests are planned for Sunday. 
 
 "There are inconsistencies in our U.S. laws that allow people to claim self-defense as a way to get away with murder," said CNN iReporter Jarvis Matthews. A student at Georgetown University, he sent video from a march in Washington, D.C. 
 
 Another demonstration was staged alongside a busy road in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where many of the protesters wore hooded sweatshirts like the one Martin had on when he was shot. 
 
 "In a nutshell I think this case is not being handled properly -- that is why we have so many protests. It was a senseless situation," said CNN iReporter Ron Campbell. 
 
 And in Sanford, Florida, a handful of members from the New Black Panther Party rallied and offered a $10,000 reward for Zimmerman's "capture." 
 
 "It's time for us, as black men, to take justice in our own hands. If you won't give us justice, we will have to take justice," said Florida organizer Mikhail Muhammad. "An eye for an eye. A life for a life." 
 
 The New Black Panther Party, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as a "virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization," is distinct from the better-known Black Panther Party, founded in the late 1960s. 
 
 The city of Sanford responded to the bounty offer by calling for "calm heads and no vigilante justice." 
 
 "Attempts by civilians to take any person into custody may result in criminal charges or unnecessary violence," it said in a statement. 
 
 Meanwhile, a lawyer for the man at the center of the death investigation said Florida's "stand your ground" law doesn't apply to the shooting that killed the teen. 
 
 "In my legal opinion, that's not really applicable to this case. The statute on 'stand your ground' is primarily when you're in your house," said Craig Sonner, Zimmerman's attorney. 
 
 "This is self-defense, and that's been around for forever -- that you have a right to defend yourself. So the next issue (that) is going to come up is, was he justified in using the amount of force he did?" 
 
 The 2005 law allows people to use deadly force anywhere they have a right to be if they have reasonable fear an assailant could seriously harm them or someone else. 
 
 It also eliminated a long-standing "duty to retreat" in the face of imminent harm, asserting that would-be crime victims have the right to "stand their ground" and "meet force with force" when attacked. 
 
 The case has sparked a national debate over the Florida law and concerns about racial profiling. Martin was black and Zimmerman is white Hispanic. 
 
 Florida Gov. Rick Scott appointed a special prosecutor, Angela Corey, to look into the case. She said her office will decide whether to charge Zimmerman, clear him or send the case to a grand jury. 
 
 The case has also prompted a U.S. Justice Department investigation, which is in the fact-finding stage. 
 
 The Sanford Police Department said officers were prohibited from arresting Zimmerman the night of the shooting because physical evidence and testimony supported his claim that he acted in self-defense in accordance with Florida law. The police department gave the explanation to City Manager Norton Bonaparte, who included it in a letter to the community about the case, posted on the city's website. 
 
 Sonner said he and Zimmerman have not discussed what happened the night Martin was shot, though he said Zimmerman has talked with authorities -- unaccompanied by counsel -- whenever they have asked him to do so. 
 
 Zimmerman said he was driving in his gated community when he saw Martin walking and called 911 to report a suspicious person. 
 
 Zimmerman told the dispatcher he was following the boy, but the dispatcher told him that wasn't necessary. Moments later, several neighbors called 911 to report a commotion outside, and police arrived to find Martin dead of a gunshot wound. 
 
 Sonner says his client was injured that night and went to the hospital with a broken nose and a serious cut on the back of his head. 
 
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 "This is not about self-defense," the Rev. Al Sharpton told a crowd in New York on Saturday. "This is about a man deciding somebody, based on who he was, was a suspect and that he would take matters into his own hands." 
 
 Sharpton, who attended a rally in Sanford earlier this week, promised a "spring offensive of non-violent protests" nationwide about the case. 
 
 Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who signed the "stand your ground" bill into law, said Friday that he does not believe it applies to the case. 
 
 "Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back," Bush said while visiting a university campus in Texas. 
 
 Sanford police said Zimmerman did not indicate a chase, telling them instead that "he had lost sight of Trayvon and was returning to his truck to meet the police officer when he says he was attacked by Trayvon," the police said in the letter posted by Bonaparte. 
 
 Sonner said he believes Zimmerman's life is in danger and has advised him to keep a low profile. 
 
 "This case is spinning out of control," he said. "I hope there's a way to rein things in so it doesn't become an issue of a racial battle. I hope that things come back so that there can be a time for justice and for healing and not for just skipping the whole judicial process and going straight to sentencing." ||||| George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, told Spanish-language television network Univision that he is homeless and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. 
 
 An English translation of the interview that will air Sunday was released to the media Saturday . 
 
 Zimmerman will speak on a special edition of "Aquí y Ahora" at 7 p.m. 
 
 Special correspondent Ilia Calderón spoke at length to Zimmerman, who shot the 17-year-old Miami Gardens youth in February 2012 in Zimmerman's gated community in Sanford. 
 
 In the interview, Zimmerman repeatedly declines to answer questions about the shooting, citing a still-pending federal civil-rights investigation. 
 
 However, he tells Calderón that his first reaction after firing the shot was concern that he had missed. 
 
 "I was afraid it had gone through his clothes and that it was going to go ... get lost, and, um, you know, go into a house and — because the young man was still talking to me, as I have said. So I thought that it hadn't … affected him, and I got worried, and I said, 'I hope that it hasn't — that the bullet hasn't hit a neighbor,'" Zimmerman says. "But I only knew that the attack stopped." 
 
 Zimmerman describes receiving death threats, which he attributes to the portrayal of the shooting in the media. 
 
 "You don't think it's because of the fact that you fired [a] gun?" Calderón asks. 
 
 "Correct. No, obviously not," replies Zimmerman, noting that other shootings get less media attention. 
 
 Later in the interview, Zimmerman tells Calderón that he was "100 percent" sure of his actions on the night of the shooting. Trayvon would have killed him if he hadn't opened fire, Zimmerman says. 
 
 "I know that for sure, yes," he tells Calderón. 
 
 Zimmerman says in the interview that he has canceled plans to participate in a celebrity boxing match. The plans for a fight, he says, "transformed into something that is not right." 
 
 Zimmerman goes on to say that he can't have a "normal life," wears a bulletproof vest when in public and doesn't have a permanent home. He says that his family helps him "a lot." 
 
 "I'm totally homeless," Zimmerman says. Later, Calderón asks how he has changed since the shooting: "I suffer from PTSD," Zimmerman replies. 
 
 Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder in Trayvon's death by a special prosecutor but was acquitted at trial last year. The case sparked international outrage and protests and renewed debate about Florida's "stand your ground" self-defense law, racial profiling and gun rights. 
 
 jeweiner@tribune.com or 407-420-5171 ||||| George Zimmerman still believes that he was a victim the night he shot and killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. “I certainly was a victim when I was having my head bashed into the concrete and my nose broken and beaten,” Zimmerman told CNN on Monday. ” So I wouldn’t say I was not a victim.” 
 
 A jury in Florida acquitted Zimmerman of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the death of Trayvon Martin seven months ago. Zimmerman admits that he killed the 17-year-old while he was working as a neighborhood watchman, but he says it was in self-defense. Perhaps that’s why he claimed memories of the night don’t haunt him. When asked why, he said, “I don’t know.” But he did say that if he could go back, he would have “stayed home” that night. 
 
 Despite all the controversy over the verdict, Zimmerman never doubted himself because of his faith in God. “I know He’s the only judge I have to answer to. He knows what happened and I know what happened.” 
 
 Though Zimmerman once aspired to be a police officer, he now says that he hopes to be a lawyer. “I’d like to professionally…continue my education and hopefully becoming an attorney,” he said. “I think that’s the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me.” 
 
 Zimmerman has run into legal trouble since his acquittal. He was pulled over for speeding; his wife called the police saying that Zimmerman was threatening her with a gun; and his new girlfriend has also claimed that he threatened her with a shotgun. (They have since reconciled.) 
 
 He’s also had a number of PR problems. He has used his notoriety to sell paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars and even agreed to become a prize fighter for charity — even though in trial he claimed he could not hold off a teenager. 
 
 “I saw it as an opportunity,” Zimmerman said of the boxing match with rapper DMX, which was canceled by its promoter. “I never expected it to turn out the way it did.” 
 
 Zimmerman continues to get death threats nearly two years after the night he killed Martin. “I have a lot of people saying that, you know, they guarantee that they’re going to kill me and I’ll never be a free man,” he said. “I realize that they don’t know me. They know who I was portrayed to be.” Zimmerman said that those who say he is a racist don’t know that some of his family members are black. 
 
 “Before the trial, during and after, I’ve learned that the majority of people, when they sit down with me one-on-one or with my family, they get a completely different perspective on me,” he said. 
 
 When asked about Michael Dunn—a Florida man convicted of second degree murder for shooting an African-American teenager during a fight over loud music—Zimmerman said, “I don’t watch the news anymore. I watch comedy shows, home improvement shows. So I’m not well enough informed to give you exacts [sic].” 
 
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– George Zimmerman is on the run: Trayvon Martin's killer attracted an angry crowd while hanging out at a beach in Miami last week and ended up fleeing the city with a bounty on his head, TMZ reports. As the story goes, Zimmerman gave an interview on Tuesday with Univision and Fusion (saying he's homeless and has PTSD) before catching rays with his brother, girlfriend, and her child. Then an angry crowd forced them back to the hotel with someone yelling about a $10,000 bounty on his head. The next day Zimmerman gave an interview with CNN and fled the city. Is there a real threat? In this Black Panthers video, one leader claims the bounty runs to $1 million. And Time reports that in his CNN interview, Zimmerman said he has "a lot of people saying that, you know, they guarantee that they’re going to kill me and I’ll never be a free man. I realize that they don’t know me. They know who I was portrayed to be." (See more on the CNN interview, in which Zimmerman says he was afraid he had missed Martin and shot a neighbor.)