There's nothing to suggest that Zimmerman kept pursuing St. Trayvon after the operator said that. The Narrative Media took that quote by itself to imply that Zimmerman ignored it and kept going, since a fight occurred thereafter. But on the tape, Zimmerman tells the operator, "Okay," and starts breathing normally. Sounds as if he broke off the chase and walked back to his truck. Because somehow, Trayvon got shot a short distance from Zimmerman's truck. How did he get there? He must have followed Zimmerman and jumped him—as Zimmerman said in his account. Unless Sharpton is going to claim he shot Tray and carried him back to his truck for field-dressing.
FWIW, the prosecutor makes the same error in the affidavit in support of the charging document.
She has to be basing that assertion on DeeDee, because other than DeeDee, all the evidence contradicts Zimmerman following (and the recorded evidence of what the dispatcher said contradicts what the prosecutor claims).
[the dispatcher] instructed Zimmerman not to [follow Martin] and that the responding officer would meet [Zimmerman]. Zimmerman disregarded the police dispatcher and continued to follow Martin who was trying to return to his home.So says the prosecutor. The prosecutor can't come close to proving that, as DeeDee herself has Martin moving away from his "home" after reaching it; and the site of the fight is 70 yards from Martin's "home." If DeeDee's testimony is cherry picked (set aside what I just noted), she is the ONLY source for "Zimmerman continued to follow Martin." The recorded call with dispatch appears to contradict this cherry-picked narrative; as it has Zimmerman losing sight of Martin.
At any rate, I think it is worth remembering that the press has been told, by the prosecutor, that Zimmerman continued to follow Martin [after Zimmerman lost sight of Martin], and that it isn;t the press making this up out of whole cloth after listening to Zimmerman's recorded conversation with dispatch.