The fact is: we still don’t know what kind of confrontation, if any, occurred. Little info has been let out by the police. I’m not saying Martin should have attacked Zimmerman for questioning him, if that’s what happened. I’m saying, if I’m walking through a strange neighborhood peacefully (at one point in my life, I did a lot of that) and someone comes and asks me what I’m doing, I’d tell them it’s none of their business. I certainly wouldn’t attack them like it sounds like Martin did to Zimmerman. But I would highly resent someone asking me what I was doing. You wouldn’t like it either. If I’m a NWV like Zimmerman, I report a strange person and leave it at that. That could be what Zimmerman did. But we still don’t know what happened. It’s all conjecture from this point.
Like I said previously - if I’m walking around in a strange neighborhood I DON’T resent someone asking me what I’m doing - I respect their right to be protective of their neighborhood. I simply tell them politely what it is I’m doing - taking a walk, going to a friend’s house, whatever it is.
If I am a NWV, I’m wanting to put a stop to the ongoing robberies. When the police show up, I want them to catch the guy, so I try to make sure I know where he is - if he goes out of my sight, I likely follow.
That’s exactly how I’ve dealt with similar situations in the past.
My point is - we don’t know everything that happened, but everything we know that Zimmerman did are the actions of a reasonable man where I come from. We don’t cower behind our “window treatments” while our neighborhood is systematicaly robbed, hoping the cops catch somebody soon.