[FreeFromWhat]

Well, this was a gated community that had been the subject of numerous burglaries, and the suspected perps were "young black males". It was after dark, and he was not a resident of the community (nor was his father - it was the father's girlfriend who lives there). So Zimmerman, who apparently knows the area and the residents well, sees a young black male who does not live in the neighborhood walking through the neighborhood and seeming to case the houses. That looks pretty suspicious to me...

I don't have a problem with any of what you just said, but there is still no evidence that he was doing anything wrong. He was talking to his girlfriend on a bluetooth headset while returning to his father's house (fine, his father's fiance's house) from the 7/11. Suspicious or not, he was not doing anything wrong.

Well, there is at least one report of this kid with "no history of violence" beating down a bus driver. And now there are eyewitness account of this "kid" being on top of Zimmerman, banging his head against the concrete.

And that one report is a twitter screen grab showing a post by "Tray's Big Bruh"????? I don't use twitter but I'm pretty sure that if I did I wouldn't reference my little brother's name in my username. I would be interested in this story if if it can be authenticated by someone but as it stands, it's pretty flimsy.

Well, if Martin though his life was in danger, he made a bad decision to attack Zimmerman and try to do a beat down...

I'd probably make the same bad decision if some dude with an earring was following me around in his car at night and then got out of his car to pursue me on foot. I guess that means I deserve to get shot. Good to know. Should I ever find myself in a situation like that in the future I'll make sure to engage him in pleasant conversation so he doesn't feel threatened.

[TigersEye]

The Twitter accounts were verified.

March 27, 2012 The Daily Caller obtains Trayvon Martin’s tweets

The image attached to the Twitter account when Martin died matches one that has been widely distributed. That photograph of Martin depicts him smiling, gold-toothed, into a camera in front of an electronic dartboard.

[TigersEye]

Should I ever find myself in a situation like that in the future I'll make sure to engage him in pleasant conversation so he doesn't feel threatened.

Or you could do what Trayvon did and start beating on the guy. You sure do make a lot of assumptions for someone who doesn't like assumptions.

[JLS]

“I’d probably make the same bad decision if some dude with an earring was following me around in his car at night and then got out of his car to pursue me on foot. “

If you start beating on someone, there is always the danger they are armed. Deterring violent attacks on people is one of the pluses of the right to bear arms. So my advice to you would be if a strange person is following you and they make you nervous, get to a well lit area with other people around. Attacking them is risky business.

Ultimately whether Zimmerman is in the wrong or not depends on whether or not he was attacked by Martin. If Martin attacked him first and was in fact smashing Zimmerman’s head into concrete, the what was Zimmerman suppose to do? If Zimmerman attacked Martin or physically tried to detain him, then the situation is certainly different. So far the police think the evidence points to Zimmerman being attacked including apparently an eye witness.