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Originally Posted by Coys1882
Did he actually confront Trayvon? From what I read it was Trayvon that confronted Zimmerman.
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Based on the evidence, Zimmerman was walking back to his car upon instruction by the police while Martin was on the phone with his friend walking home himself. The defense tried to prove that Martin instead of going home turned around and circled back to where the confrontation took place. The prosecution basically gave up and seemed to accept this.
The big issue is that since the facts surrounding the attack are somewhat up in the air and once the media bashed Zimmerman as being a racist then this must mean Martin was attacked my Zimmerman. Since then the allegations have been proven baseless, yet look how many people are so passionate against Zimmerman. I don't see this case being that complicated at all; I am perplexed by the attention given to the case.
Even if Zimmerman was the most racist guy in the world, he still called the police to report what he thought was a suspicious person, Martin, as was proven in court, should have walked home or called the cops himself if he thought a creepy guy was following him. Attacking Zimmerman proved to be a fatal mistake.
All this attention focused on racism has really diminished what benefits the publicity this case has brought up: There is far too much violence, and violence has become a 'reasonable' outlet for much of the youth in the States. Chicago alone had something like fifty shootings on father's day.