I have to get to work, its been fun. My point in all of this has been no one knows. No one will ever know what happened in that time frame. No evidence is going to come out barring a video tape ala Rodney King. The only thing we will ever have to go on about who swung at who first, when the weapon was drawn, etc is Zimmerman’s statement. This was a preventable situation had Zimmerman not racially profiled and then exited his car to follow an innocent 17 year old child. I feel bad for Zimmerman if it was in self defense and he genuinely acted in good faith, but he erred in judgment and a kid is dead as a result. This is a tragedy from multiple angles. Hope you have a good night.
You have neighbors reporting noise, not visual reenactments of the events. No one will ever know if Martin saw the gun prior to the physical altercation as there is no way of knowing. The kid was innocent of wrong doing at the point where Zimmerman was yelling accusations and got out of the vehicle to go after him, and Zimmerman was guilty of being a vigilante in the way he handled things. Pursuit (legal or not) is not the right course of action and how could the kid not feel threatened.
Show a picture of a 90 year old white lady and a picture of a 17 year old, six foot tall, black "child" to somebody and ask them to speculate which one might to be more likely to be responsible for the recent breakins in a neighborhood.
I'd be surprised if most people wouldn't think the black guy was more suspect. Is that fair? No, but if anybody told you life was always fair, they were lying to you.