George Zimmerman was allegedly forced to leave Miami after a mob of people revealed there was a $10,000 bounty out on him, the Daily Mail reports.
Zimmerman fled soon after he recorded a TV interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo. According to the Daily Mail, Zimmerman abandoned his Florida home with his family, whom were also with him during the chase. He has been receiving death threats since the case against him started and after he was found not guilty of the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2013
"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," Zimmerman told CNN. "I realize that they don't know me. They know who I was portrayed to be."
During Zimmerman's interview with CNN, the exonerated man claimed he wanted to go back to school to become lawyer in order to "to stop the miscarriage of justice."
"I'd like to professionally ... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney," Zimmerman told CNN. "I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again, not one person."
He maintains his actions were legally justified because he was acting in self-defense.
"When [Martin] saw my handgun and looked at it and told me that he was going to kill me that night, uh, that was enough of a threat after the way he had attacked me. So, I felt his hand going for my weapon," Zimmerman said.
He also told CNN he believes he became the "[scapegoat for] the government, the President [and] the attorney general."
"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," Zimmerman said.
