The Florida law simply does not require that you strike someone, or that they strike you, in order for you to be the offender or the victim.
If the final event is the logical culmination of a course of events that began far earlier, to wit, that legal "contact' was made earlier, then the who struck johns may well reverse precedence ~ and an apparent victim being the actual attacker, or vice versa.
Otherwise self-defense would not have any relevance at all in a law designed to authorize self-defense as a legal protection against prosecution.
We know from Zimmerman's own words to the 911 dispatcher that he was following Martin. That's when the process began.
In the end Martin was shot down about 60 feet from his front door.
That's the hurdle Zimmerman has to jump ~
muawiyah, in your little abbreviated timeline, you conveniently leave out that Zimmerman told the dispatcher he had lost sight of Miller.
Why is that? Surely you’ve listened to Call 1 on the City of Sanford’s web page on this event? Are you taking lessons in reporting from the mainstream media?