If this is a true account, it supports Zimmerman's claim it was Martin who initiated the confrontation.“He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on,” she said. “He said he lost the man. I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run.”
“Trayvon said, ‘What, are you following me for.’ And the man said, ‘What are you doing here.’ Next thing I hear is somebody pushing, and somebody pushed Trayvon because the head set just fell. I called him again and he didn’t answer the phone.”
I also think it's a mistake to make the assumption there is a racial element to the incident because, if provably wrong, it make Zimmerman a sympathetic character and further insulates him against prosecution for any lesser offense such as criminally negligent homicide or manslaughter.
On the other hand, the racialists could relive their success of the Rodney King affair where 4 cops wrongly and criminally beat the living out of a man, not because he was black, but because he was an asshole that had just led them on a high-speed, life-threatening pursuit, by haranguing Florida authorities into making this a race crime, as well.
Either way, it matters little...just another sad story in America.
