I call the cops when we have suspicious looking people in my neighborhood and if they lurk around my house and if I see them going toward my back yard, you bet your ass I'm going follow them from a distance. It's my right. And they happen to try and break into my house, they get blown away, simple as that. Black, white, brown, yellow, it doesn't make a difference.
CORRECT - but zimm was a mile from his house. They were 75 yards from trayvon's door, actually. And he wasn't breaking in houses, he was cowering in darkness after sprinting 2 blocks to get away from a bigger dude that pulled in and jumped out of a truck suddenly.
If trayvon comes in my house, i'm capping him, easy one there.
But chasing him into the darkness, believing he's on drugs/armed, and throwing down with police 1 minute away? The dude WANTED a confrontation. Period. He thought police woudl show up in the nick of time, he'd be a hero, trayvon would have committed a crime, and he would be the cop that caught the bad guy. They'd all pat him on the back.
This is different. He put on a gun and ran into the dark. Anyone does this, we never have a convo. One of us dies. Serious shit there. I'm hiding in bushes and armed MMA dude 50 pounds bigger pulls me out of bushes, I never hear his voice. it's a life/death struggle already.