walking while black - Trayvon Martin

[Midwest Spy]

When asked what the unlawful act that Zimmerman was preventing, I wonder what his response was. Are these streets in this 'gated' community public or private streets. If they are private and no one stopped Trayvon at the 'gate' to inquire as to his reason for being there or inform him that he was trespassing, which I don't believe he was, then what crime was being committed or about to be committed that requires someone packing deadly force to escalate to the loss of anothers life? If they are public what right would a person have to impede another from walking there and impose upon them to answer any questions? Police must have probable cause to to this, how is it that a private citizen isn't required to abide by the same?

I'm not super-familiar with gated communities, but I did just stay in one in Hawaii in January.

There, I had to punch in a code to open the gate and let my car pass through (essentially unmanned).

To me, the gate would infer that if you don't live there, you're not welcome (unless you're a residents guest).

Why would you assume a gated community would welcome anyone to come in (if they weren't invited)? Technically, he would've been trespassing.

To me, this is the biggest piece of information to come out. The fact that his dad's girlfriend did not live in the gated community? He wasn't supposed to be there, and sheds new light on the events.

No, he didn't deserve to die, but, could the cops have been called to report him there? Sure.

Community watchman was probably doing exactly what he was hired to do by those residents, who quite frankly, were worried about criminals entering their property.

If Zimmerman had at least identified himself (or was wearing some sort of uniform) this probabaly never would have escalated to the point it did.