Joyce, you're forgetting that Zimmerman profiled and stalked Martin. In other words, Zimmerman caused the entire incident. Try putting yourself in Martin's shoes. Let's say you're a man and someone was profiling and stalking you just because of your race or appearance, don't you think you'd have a right to turn on your stalker? I think so. As far as Martin was aware, Zimmerman was up to no good (Zimmerman didn't have any legal authority to do what he was doing). Zimmerman was at fault throughout the whole incident.
Besides, we have only Zimmerman's word that things transpired the way they did. How do we know that, emboldened by his gun, Zimmerman didn't take his pretend-policeman act to the next level and confronted Martin?
Your problem, Joyce, is that you can't put yourself in other people's shoes. You are short on empathy. Where race relations are concerned, that seems to be true of most white poeple.
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