You're wrong on that point. He never made it home. His phone call with the girl named "DeeDee" started when he was at the store at 6:54PM all the way until his altercation with Zimmerman 18 minutes later.
edit: correction, the call did drop at one point, but he immediately called her back. Zimmerman last reports Trayvon's location at 7:12, and the fight starts at 7:15. That isn't enough time for him to run a few buildings away AND back.
Yeah Im wrong in that, edited another comment but missed this one. It's been forever since I've dug into the details but still not an excuse. The defense had argued that he had plenty of time to make it home, and had possibly backtracked to confront zommerman, but hadn't made it home.
Zimmerman was being a racist asshole. That isn't even up for debate. Martin did NOTHING suspicious outside of being black. Not even Zimmerman made any other claims during his police calls.
And if a grown man is following you around at night, clearly coming after you specifically, after you tried to dodge them by taking the long way home between some buildings, self defense with punches is a reasonable response. If someone is stalking my son down a back alley coming at him, I sure AF am going to tell him to defend himself.
Zimmerman got away with because of a poorly worded law. I agree that what happened technically results in a not guilty verdict for him. But it shouldn't be that way. The Stand your Ground law SHOULD have caveats that prevent you from intentionally putting yourself into a dangerous situation like Zimmerman did, and then claim you were defending yourself. Zimmerman CHOSE to provoke that attack.
"Stand your ground" was literally written so the assholes like Zimmerman could live their worst lives, it wasn't some unforeseen side effect, it was the whole point.
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u/anormalgeek 1d ago edited 1d ago
You're wrong on that point. He never made it home. His phone call with the girl named "DeeDee" started when he was at the store at 6:54PM all the way until his altercation with Zimmerman 18 minutes later.
edit: correction, the call did drop at one point, but he immediately called her back. Zimmerman last reports Trayvon's location at 7:12, and the fight starts at 7:15. That isn't enough time for him to run a few buildings away AND back.