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(62,325 posts)and not to follow Trayvon. He was already out of his car when he called the police it appears and ignored that instruction.
We also know now that Trayvon was on the phone to his girlfriend and that he had no idea who this person was who was following him. He was clearly trying to GET AWAY from him.
It seems very clear that a teenager who was doing nothing wrong was followed and confronted by a total stranger for no reason other than 'he looks suspicious'. IF and it is a big IF, Zimmerman caught up with him and attempted to detain him, considering he was not a Police Officer and a total stranger, IF he tried to grab Trayvon in order to not let him 'get away, he had zero right to do that and Trayvon had every right to defend himself. Zimmerman was NOT the victim, he was the attacker. And according to that infamous law, Trayvon had every right to defend himself from an attack by a total stranger.
The timeline tells us now that the killing appears to have taken place minutes after Zimmerman got off the phone with the Dispatcher. Had he waited, maybe just five minutes, no one would have died. Again, Trayvon was trying to get away from Zimmerman. There would have been no confrontation, no fight assuming there was, had Zimmerman not started it.