This should be coupled with the situation.
If I were visiting the home of my father’s girlfriend, some 50+ miles from where I call home,...and he and she sent out leaving me alone,...and I decided to go to a convenience store to buy some soda and snacks,...and was returning the the home I was visiting,....at past 11pm hours of darkness, ...in a stranger’s neighborhood, where I was obviously considered a stranger to the neighborhood,....and I saw a neighborhood watch in the area,....I would either go out of my way to introduce myself to them so they knew who I was and where I was going and what I was doing there OR I would avoid them like the plaque, go directly to the home where I was staying, and remain there until parents returned.
I do this because I would fully expect EVERYBODY in that neighborhood to consider me a likely burglar/thief/criminal for simply presenting myself in the fashion Trayvon presented himself.
If he had an inkling of virtue in him, he wouldn’t have been where he was at, behaving in the way he was behaving, and then assaulting anybody in that foreign neighborhood, especially somebody seeking to defend the property rights of the neighborhood.
Had he been preoccupied in a phone call and merely meandered about, he would have been apologetic to the locals, instead of adversarial.
He then started a fight, attempted to murder Zimmerman who defended himself, and ended up a casualty to his own arrogance. Had not been killed, he would have then further degenerated into even more heinous criminality.
You’re right about how he’d have degenerated had he not been killed. Indeed, he’d have “made his bones” by murdering Zimmerman. After that he’d have been a full scale gangsta with a lot of ‘tude. That would have led him into even more crimes that were more and more dangerous to him. He’d have probably been dead in two or three years, or sooner, probably at a brudder’s hands.