Is that the place he first saw him that made him suspicious? Or was it the clubhouse? Or did he decide to call NEN after he saw him in FT’s yard? If that is the case, and i don’t know it is, but TM standing in the yard of a GZ’s friend is proof that this wasn’t a race thing. If I drive by my friends house, at night and see not that person hanging out in the yard, I’d be suspicious too.ANYONE would.
However, my theory may be all goofed up, lol. I have most things re: the timeline straight, except the whole clubhouse thing.
Zimmerman drove from there to the clubhouse, and parked. Martin walked the same direction, noticed Zimmerman, and Zimmerman noticed this. Martin then went on. Zimmerman pulled out of the parking place, and drove down the road keeping an eye on Martin. Martin disappeared, then reappeared. This is where Zimmerman reports to NEN operator that Martin was staring at him, hand in waistband, and this is where Zimmerman recounts at the police station that Martin (maybe) circled Zimmerman's car. None of this is claimed to be at a close distance, not within earshot.
Martin then takes off at a run, or a skip, and goes out of sight. Zimmerman gets out to see which way Martin disappeared. Some people refer to this as "following," be he can't see Martin, and doesn't know where he went, so it's pretty hard to literally "follow" Martin. The NEN operator asks Zimmerman if he is following (which he asks because he thinks, correctly, that Zimmerman is out of the car). Zimmerman says"yes," the NEN operators "we don't need you to that" and Zimmerman says "ok." Zimmerman says that at this point, he is about at the "T" sidewalk intersection.
Zimmerman stays on the phone with NEN for another couple minutes, about. He walks past the "T" (away from his truck), doesn't see Martin down the street, claims he walked over there to get a house address, then Zimmerman starts back toward his truck. He walks past the "T" intersection, and is confronted by Martin.