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Prestigious LA school is evacuated after racially abused ex-Miami Dolphins player and former pupil Jonathan Martin posts chilling threat of 'suicide or revenge' on his Instagram account * Ex-Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin was behind an Instagram post threatening a shooting that led to Harvard-Westlake's closure in California * The high school and middle school were closed on Friday morning after officials were alerted * The 28-year-old former student was taken into custody over the post, although he made no direct threat against the school, officials said * Martin posted a photo of a shotgun and cartridges on a bed Thursday, writing: 'When you're a bully victim & a coward, your options are suicide, or revenge' * Martin left the Dolphins in 2013 amid allegations he was a victim of racist bullying from his teammates * His teammate Richie Incognito was investigated by the NFL Players Association over allegations that he was the ringleader of the tormenting * Incognito left voicemails on Martin's phone calling him a 'half-n****r piece of s**t', threatening to slap his mother and even making death threats * Notable alumni of Harvard-Westlake include Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Kate Beckinsale's children currently attend the school By Ryan Parry West Coast Correspondent For Dailymail.comPublished: 15:13 EST, 23 February 2018 | Updated: 16:20 EST, 23 February 2018A former Miami Dolphins player was behind a sinister social media post threatening a shooting that led to his old high school being closed and him being taken into custody on Friday, sources tell DailyMail.com.Troubled Jonathan Martin, 28, posted a picture on his private Instagram feed late on Thursday of a shotgun and cartridges on a bed, with the caption: 'When you're a bully victim & a coward, your options are suicide, or revenge.'In the chilling post, he hashtagged his former school, Harvard-Westlake in California and the Miami Dolphins.Harvard-Westlake School, an elite private school costing $38,000 a year and popular with celebrities, was forced to close both its campuses after one of its students highlighted the post as a possible 'security threat' on social media, police said. ...
... Martin accused Incognito and Pouncey of bullying him when they were teammates in Miami, which resulted in an NFL investigation in 2013. The investigation determined that Incognito, Pouncey and John Jerry engaged in a pattern of harassment directed at Martin and another young offensive lineman identified as Player A in the Ted Wells report.It was written in the Wells report that Martin was harassed in middle school and high school, resulting in a lack of self-esteem and depression as a teenager. The Wells report also mentioned that Martin contemplated suicide on two occasions, in January and May of 2013."According to Martin, in middle school and high school he was the victim of bullying, which diminished his self-confidence and self-esteem and contributed to what he self-diagnosed as periodic bouts of depression during his teenage years," the report said. "Martin claims that the depression he experienced in high school recurred as a result of mistreatment by his teammates on the Dolphins and that on two occasions in 2013 he even contemplated suicide." ...
ESPNThen he gets a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card, maybe?
