walking while black - Trayvon Martin

[HairOfTheDog]

Trayvon was a stranger to him and not someone he recognized as having eluded him in the past.

Important note to take from this comment: there had been a recent rash of break-ins in this neighborhood, and that's why Zimmerman was helping do a neighborhood watch.

A Hooded person walking through a neighborhood experiencing a rash of thefts would be considered suspicious to me.

I don't think it's an issue that Zimmerman considered a stranger in the area to be suspicious under the circumstances. He rightly called 911 and they told them that PD would be coming to handle it. That's where it should have ended, imo. Zimmerman was a "watch" person, not a member of the PD.