It’s easily argued from the transcript that he got out of the vehicle to answer the dispatcher’s question of Martin’s whereabouts after Martin started running.
Dispatchers says, “are you following?” Zim says, “yeah”. Dispatch says “we don’t need you to do that.” Zim says, “OK.”
How long could that have possibly been...a coupla minutes at most.
And was it illegal “repeatedly stalking following” or was it “checking whereabouts following?”
Clearly the latter. None of which changes Zimmerman’s right to defend himself when he’s getting his brains beat in.
following (as in pursuit) and trying to keep track of him is two different things