George Zimmerman flees Miami after being accosted on beach and $10,000 bounty put on his head

• Ambushed on beach with wife and son by angry protesters
• Next day fled home moments after interview saying he feels he suffered a miscarriage of justice and still receives regular death threats
• In an interview Monday, Zimmerman told CNN's Chris Cuomo he suffered a 'miscarriage of justice' in his trial for the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin
• He said the President and Attorney General were making him a 'scapegoat' but he didn't know 'what agenda they have'
• Zimmerman maintains that he acted in self-defense within the law when he shot Martin
• He said he still receives death threats seven months after he was acquitted in the murder trial

PUBLISHED: 00:28 EST, 18 February 2014 | UPDATED: 10:20 EST, 18 February 2014

George Zimmerman has fleed Miami after being chased by a crowd and told there is a $10,000 bounty on his head.

He abandoned his home with his family moments after a TV interview with CNN the next morning.
Zimmerman, 30, appeared on CNN on Monday to accuse President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder of making him a 'scapegoat'.
It has emerged his words came hours after infuriated protesters ambushed him, his girlfriend and her son on the beach.

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Scapegoat: George Zimmerman, pictured Monday, has accused President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder of making him a 'scapegoat'

Speaking on national television to Chris Cuomo, he revealed he still receives death threats seven months after he was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin.
He said he suffered a 'miscarriage of justice' in his trial for the killing of the Florida teen, and maintains that he acted in self-defense within the law.
When Cuomo asked him what he was being made a scapegoat for, he responded: 'The government, the president, the attorney general.

 

'I don’t know what they're thinking or why they're thinking it, all I know is that they're doing it. I don't know what agenda they have.'

Zimmerman, 30, also told Cuomo he wants to go back to school and get a law degree so he said he can make sure no one else goes through what he did.
'I would like to professionally continue my education and hopefully become an attorney,' Zimmerman said.

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Law school: Zimmerman, 30, also told Chris Cuomo, left, that he wants to go back to school and get a law degree so he said he can make sure no one else goes through what he did

'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 happen to anyone ever again, not one person.'
Zimmerman, who has remained a fixture in news headlines, said he still gets death threats following his intensely controversial acquittal in the Martin case.
'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 told Cuomo. 'I realize that they don't know me. They know who I was portrayed to be.'
He also said he's often accused of being racist, but said he was raised by Peruvian family members and that some of his family are black.
He said he'd never stop trying to fight the accusation that he's 'the guy who gets away with killing a black kid.'
'If it takes one person a day at a time to help them realize that's not what this case was about then that's what I'll do,' Zimmerman said.
The comments come just days after he claimed he is suffering from post-traumatic stress and is homeless after his trial.

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'Sad. Very sad': How George Zimmerman described himself in the recent interview with Ilia Calderón

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Insight: Zimmerman told Calderón that he receives death threats due to bad media coverage, not the fact that he shot Trayvon Martin

Zimmerman made the claims to journalist Ilia Calderón, who interviewed him for the Spanish language current affairs show Aqui y Ahora that aired on Univision on Sunday at 7pm.
During the interview, Zimmerman also claimed that Martin threatened to kill him before he shot and killed the unarmed 17-year-old.
'When he 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.
When asked how he feels now, Zimmerman responded 'Sad. Very sad.'
He told Calderón that after shooting Martin, his main concern was that he had missed his target.
'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 said.

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International notoriety: Zimmerman's case became known around the world

The much-maligned former insurance salesman who has recently taken to selling his unique art on eBay said he was '100 per cent' sure of his actions that night, and that had he not shot Martin, the teen would have killed him.
Zimmerman said that he has had death threats since the trial, which he put down to his portrayal in the media and not his shooting of a teenaged boy.
Zimmerman told Calderón that he can no longer lead a normal life and must wear a bullet-proof vest when he is out in public.
Describing himself as 'totally homeless,' Zimmerman said his family helps him 'a lot.'