walking while black - Trayvon Martin

[HairOfTheDog]

You can follow someone down the street, that's not a crime and not the legal definition of "stalking". I've had a couple of different assholes (strangers) follow me down the street for miles, openly doing so. Despite it being irritating as hell to me, they were not committing a crime.

However, if they had confronted and threatened, harmed, or harassed me in some way, there would have been laws broken.

If a jury can be convinced that that George Zimmerman confronted/threatened Trayvon Martin, I think Zimmerman's going away no matter who threw the first punch and who got the better of whom in the physical altercation. In that case, even if Martin swung first and beat the crap out of Zimmerman, it would have been Martin who was acting in self defense before he was shot and killed.

If a jury can be convinced that Zimmerman was actually retreating and walking away without ever having confronted/threatened Martin (even if Zimmerman initially ignored 911 dispatch advice and continued following for a while), I think Zimmerman will walk, despite the fact that his story of how the gun came into play smells like bullshit imo. He had a right to carry.

JMO.