IF Trayvon had a right to be in the complex, so did George. If Trayvon had a right to be walking on the sidewalk, so did George.
What happened here could have been avoided by one party not deciding he was not shown proper respect and starting a fight instead of being civilized and talking to someone, rather than being gangsta tough and smacking someone down and not bothering to determine what was even going on.
If you want to talk about someone making assumptions, that BDLR said, it was Trayvon who made a bunch of assumptions , beginning with the “nigga” that was following him, and the “crazy ass cracker” he was obviously pissed off at before he ever said one word to him. He just assumed the worst, and assumed the guy dissed him and assumed the guy for no other reason than that deserved an ass-kicking from trayvon himself.
I would quibble a little bit with this. I think that there is a hierarchy of "rights" here, if not in law then in social protocols.
This was a condominium community. The "rights" should descend as follows:
1. Owners first.
2. Renters second.
3. Temporary guests third. I won't distinguish between guests of owners vs. guests of renters.
The bottom line is that Trayvon Martin, as a guest of his step-mother (I think she was the owner/renter? of the condo unit), should have been more deferential to the residents who own the units. Instead, Martin was acting like everyone owed him something, and he was disrepectful to the people he encountered in the neighborhood into which he was invited as a guest.
-PJ