If some crazy guy was following me then yeah id probably throw a blow.
Now if I was zimmerman, I would have kept my ass in my car and let the cops handle their job.
I would have went back to my car when the 911 officer told me not to follow the kid.
When face to face with the kid, id identify myself as neighborhood watch, just making sure no trouble was going on, apologies to him for any trouble and wish him a good night.
Id fukking know better, as a consealed weapon owner, to not start a altercation with someone while armed, knowing how easily the situation could escalate. Zimmerman should know better especially since he had to in order to aquire a consealed weapons permit.
See your problem is your approaching the situation like trayvon was already beating zimmerman and ignoring the real dumb ass actions that led to the situation.
Again, as a legal gun owner, its his responsibility to keep himself out of situations that can escalate very easily.
Thats not what zimmerman did tho now was it? Instead he went looking for trouble, armed.
Good response
The only thing is he lives in that neighborhood, he's in neighborhood watch and he has reported suspicious persons before that got away cuz he wouldn't follow them. You could see why he'd be like fukk it, this time I'm gonna follow him and tell the cops exactly where he is when they get here.
And if you look at the end of the transcript from the 911 conversation, when tray ran and zimmer was following, he stopped when the dispatcher told him to. And at the end of the call he didn't even know where tray was:
Who are you or I to say that tray did or did not jump him some time after the call concluded. These are the things yall are acting like you know to be the case but are really unknown.Dispatcher: Are you following him?
Zimmerman: Yeah.
Dispatcher: Okay, we don't need you to do that.
Zimmerman: Okay.
Dispatcher: All right, sir, what is your name?
Zimmerman: George...He ran.
Dispatcher: All right, George, what's your last name?
Zimmerman: Zimmerman.
Dispatcher: And George, what's the phone number you're calling from?
Zimmerman: [redacted]
Dispatcher: All right, George, we do have them on the way. Do you want to meet with the officer when they get out there?
Zimmerman:: Yeah.
Dispatcher: Alright, where you going to meet with them at?
Zimmerman: If they come in through the gate, tell them to go straight past the club house, and uh, straight past the club house and make a left, and then they go past the mailboxes, that's my truck...[unintelligible]
Dispatcher: What address are you parked in front of?
Zimmerman: I don't know. It's a cut through so I don't know the address.
Dispatcher: Okay. Do you live in the area?
Zimmerman: Yeah, I...[unintelligible]
Dispatcher: What's your apartment number?
Zimmerman: It's a home. It's 1950, Oh, crap. I don't want to give it all out. I don't know where this kid is.
Dispatcher: Okay. Do you want to just meet with them right near the mailboxes then?
Zimmerman: Yeah, that's fine.
Dispatcher: All right, George. I'll let them know to meet you around there okay?
Zimmerman: Actually, could you have them call me and I'll tell them where I'm at?
Dispatcher: Okay, yeah. That's no problem.
Zimmerman: Should I give you my number or you got it?
Dispatcher: Yeah, I got it [redacted]
Zimmerman: Yeah, you got it.
Dispatcher: Okay. No problem. I'll let them know to call you when they're in the area.
Zimmerman: Thanks.
Dispatcher: You're welcome.
Who are you to say zimmerman started the altercation after the phone call was done? You weren't there. Even if he was looking around for him, wouldn't the prudent thing for tray to do be run home since zimmerman doesn't know where he is?
How do you know that he got the chance to be face-to-face at that point? It is possible that he got jumped before he could say anything.
But he definitely should have identified himself when the kid asked him why he was following him. That was some dumbass decision making rite there, which he said he did cuz he didnt want to escalate the situation right? I think that was the key wrong move, cuz at that point tray just thinks this is some weirdo and zimmer still doesnt know if it's a criminal or not.
AGAIN, TO EVERYBODY. PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. MY WORD AINT GOSPEL AND I HAVEN'T PAID ATTENTION TO NEW DETAILS COMING OUT DURING THE TRIAL.