[RabidBartender]

"Then he really was "acting suspiciously" and Zimmerman had every right to stop him and ask what he was doing there,"

Some FReepers will say Zimmerman didn't have that right.

[muawiyah]

Read Florida's own laws on trespassing. An old custom called "posting" is pretty evidently still in place. I used Google.Earth to find if there were actually "gates" and "signs" and couldn't find them. Doesn't mean they don't exist, but they aren't immediately obvious.

Seemed to me this was a formerly gated community that fell on hard times so they laid off the guards.

[apillar]

"Then he really was "acting suspiciously" and Zimmerman had every right to stop him and ask what he was doing there,"

Some FReepers will say Zimmerman didn't have that right.

And I would agree with them if Treyvon was walking down the sidewalk in the middle of town. But this was a gated community, not "public property". Gated communities by there nature are "private" usually run by a homeowners association and you are expected to abide by the rules if you are on the premises. Now was Zimmerman working "for" the homeowners association in his capacity as Neighborhood Watch Captain and therefore had the right to enforce the rules? I don't know. But if this goes to court, this is what it could hinge on. If the the Association rules say that paid security or volunteer neighborhood watch can challenge anybody they don't recognize, then Zimmerman is on pretty safe ground doing what he did (even though the 911 operator advised him against it).