Those are not caps. It is a plate that is easily removed and the end of the article comfirmed that it wasn’t permanent. He apparently didn’t wear it generally.
I think that his chances of living a long life were pretty normal. I believe that Zimmerman was destined for such an encounter.
Perhaps you might not be aware of it, but drugs, burglar tools, stolen jewelry and the inability to construct a simple declarative sentence without the word f**k in it are not considered "normal" in many Western cultures.
Normal by WHAT standards?
“I believe that Zimmerman was destined for such an encounter.”
Actually there are a lot of neighborhoods in many areas
where anyone walking outside at night for any reason is
destined for such an encounter. The difference is that most
of the time when that encounter occurs the victim is unarmed, the thug triumphs and justice is thwarted. In this
case it would appear that when it comes to choosing victims
Trayvon “chose poorly”, and paid for that poor choice.