Wasn’t Zimmerman retreating after originally following Trayvon? Martin was the one ‘standing his ground’, actually the aggressor.
The outrage over “stand your grand” is entirely manufactured, it was entirely immaterial at the Zimmerman trial.
You see, when someone sneaks up on you, attacks you, pins you to the ground, and proceeds to try to kill you, your ABILITY to retreat has been taken away from you, hence whether you have a legal duty to retreat at that point or not is immaterial because your assailant has precluded that option.
The Zimmerman trial verdict would have been the same if Florida self-defense laws had some form of legal duty to retreat.
I don’t know that I’d say Zimmerman was “retreating”. He had been following Martin because he was acting suspiciously, but Zimmerman lost him. Martin realized that he was being followed, then circled around and attacked Zimmerman. Zimmerman defended himself.
A couple more points: Q: Why was Martin in Sanford to start with? A: Because he had been kicked out of school in south Florida for bad behavior and so took vacation to be with his cousin in Sanford.
Martin simply could have just gone “home” to his cousin’s and closed the door-no incident.