He brings up MLK to white jurors to make them feel guilty and to scare them.
What gets to me is the media still saying Zimmerman disobeyed the dispatcher. As I recall the dispatcher testified that he did NOT order Zimmerman to do or not to do anything. Plus, it wasn’t illegal for Zimmerman to follow. If it was, Martin should have been arrested posthumasly. (sp?)
You are sort of correct. The non-emergency 911 operator asked which way did the person described by the defendant to be suspicious-looking go. Zimmerman took this to mean or at least to suggest that he should follow that person at a distance. At a latter time, emphasize latter time, the non-emergency 911 operator said “We don’t need you to do that.” The prosecution interprets this to mean that the non-emergency 911 operator has the authority to order people around and that “We don’t need you to do that” is an order to return to your vehicle. Trayvon, say the prosecution, had every right to ambulate about the gated community. But, Zimmerman is to be held in suspicion because he didn’t stay in his car. Zimmerman is guilty of defending himself while being white.
As evidence was presented at trial, the dispatcher asked for information that reasonably could have been interpreted as a request to actively work to obtain that information, including following TM.