“Treyvon Martin didn’t live in this GATED community. (It’s gated, BTW, to keep out crimninals.)
So how did he get in?
Did some one in the community LET him in?”
He was visiing his father who DID live there.
Zimmerman had a right to be suspicious of him. It was dark, it was raining, and 6’3” Trayvon had a hoodie on with his head covered. Zimmerman appropriately called the police to report Trayvon since they’d had a string of recent burglaries. It’s what happened after that that is unclear and will determine whether it was self dense or murder.
I was President of our local HOA when we lived in a small private (but not gated) community. By default I was considered head of our nearly defunct Neighborhood Watch also. At one point I got a number of calls from parents expressing concern about a supposedly “creepy” guy showing up every couple of weeks when the kids were walking to the school bus. I started walking my dog around that time and it wasn’t long before I saw the guy slowly cruising the neighborhood. I stopped him and asked him what he was doing. He initially wouldn’t tell me but when I told him some parents were concerned about their children he laughed and said, “I’m looking for TVs and stereos in the trash. I fix them and sell them. You rich people throw out some good stuff” I laughed and told him to have a nice day. I was armed and my dog was a 120 lb Doberman. I’m also 6’0” tall and weighed about 280 at the time. If he’d jumped out of the car with the intention of beating my azz I suppose it could have gone the same way as Trayvon.
where is trevor’s duty to walk away?
if a football player is pounding you to a pulp the is no duty to sit there and take it