Of course we are going to leave out the part that Trayvon was a 6’2” football player who knocked the smaller Zimmerman to the ground, was beating him and had Zimmerman screaming for help. That Zimmerman was bleeding from both his face and the back of his head, and that he had grass stains on the back of his shirt when the police rolled up.
So if someone chased you in the middle of the night, what would you assume? That he was going to assault you is the correct answer if you have half a brain. It just so happens the person who was chasing got the shit kicked out of him by someone who did nothing wrong. Then the rent-a-cop decided he will shoot in “self-defence”.
He deserves blame, it can be argued that it was self defence, however he directly created the situation where he required the self defence so some of the blame for the outcome should be placed on him.
Zimmerman is just an idiot.
Where’d the gun come from? Why didn’t he sit still like he was told? If he went after him, he was asking for confrontation. It’s not like he was saving some little old lady’s life.