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Originally Posted by nik-
You don't even need to go that far ... if Zimmerman had stayed in his car and called the police, Martin would be alive today.
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He's a neighbourhood watch captain. It's his job (volunteer job granted) to investigate. Maybe he was wrong for observing Martin, and he was racist. However, that does not give the right to Martin to assault Zimmerman. That may not have actually been what happened but they weren't able to prove that Zimmerman started the physical altercation in the courts.
You obviously never had block watch in your neighbourhood. When me and my friends were teenagers wandering around at night, they would stop us and ask us questions all of the time. There's absolutely nothing illegal about that. This was on public streets. Zimmerman was on private property in a gated community.