QuickHitCurepon
Diamond Member
It's a gated community. The #1 REASON that people choose to live in gated communities is for security. The fences and gates are supposed to keep outsiders out. Trayvon Martin was a visitor to that community...a guest of a resident. Yes, he had every right to be there but he also should have recognized the fact that he WAS a stranger in a gated community and that someone MIGHT question who he was. You don't punch someone in the face for following you under those circumstances. You tell them that you're a guest of So & So and you're staying in Such & Such unit. THAT is the way you should "act"!
How was he supposed to prove to Zimmerman that he was visiting someone there? So you are admitting more or less that Zimmerman started to demand proof. That sounds like Zimmerman starting something there.
Instead of approaching out of the dark with a confrontational "You got a problem?" and a sucker punch to the face when getting a response of "I don't have a problem with you."...I would have stood off at a safe distance, asked the man who was following me WHY he was doing so and THEN I would have told him I was visiting the fiancee of my Dad who lived at unit #106.
I don't think Zimmerman ever demanded anything. Martin punched him in the face almost immediately. Or do you see "I don't have a problem with you." as a "demand"?
After all that, Zimmerman is going to accept Trayvon's word?