The stalking of Trayvon Martin was the INITIAL act of felon aggression PERIOD END OF STORY [View all]

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Last edited Fri May 18, 2012, 03:19 PM - Edit history (2)

...and that's part of why they can charge the guy with second degree murder.

He's already admitted to the acts of stalking and indications of him chasing Martin is overwhelming.

After this, regardless of who had what and what happened AFTER THE ACT OF FELON AGGRESSION is irrelevant, ZMan should've gotten a lawyer and stayed quite in front of the police.

From a previous TP, you can NOT walk into a store brandishing a gun (felon aggression) and claim self defense after shooting the store owner cause they were grabbing their gun to defend themselves

Stalking Under Florida law....

if a person "stalks" someone else, that's a 3rd degree felony and would almost certainly negate any claim of self-defense.

Definition of stalk (felony version) under FL law: Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person, and makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear of death or bodily injury of the person, or the person's child, sibling, spouse, parent, or dependent, commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree.

Edited to add: There's also misdemeanor stalking, defined as "Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person commits the offense of stalking, a misdemeanor of the first degree"

The defense of ZMan falls apart when his defenders indicate in any way that his following wasn't malicious and that's where his current actions of following a person who KNEW was black and indicated so (unsolicited or not) and his past actions of singling out black kids and chasing them come into play.

EDIT: Repeated follows does NOT have to happen over hours, days or weeks and ZMan 1. followed Martin in his car and stopped to the car to then....2.. Follow Martin on foot.

The law doesn't say if you don't have 20 repeated action over a month then it's not stalking.

A person intent has to be included here also, the intent of ZMan is pretty clear in statements and to a reasonable person looking at the facts; ZMan wasn't chasing Martin to ask him for some Skittles