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Originally Posted by CU Tiger
Right but if was him and I feared for my life I wwouldnt go chasing down a 6' tall black "thug" in the dark...remember he didn't know it was a 17 year old kid...
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I wouldn't either, but we're also not sure what kind of chasing down occurred. His story was that he just wanted to give police info about the direction Martin was going in, and that Martin doubled back around and instigated the physical part. We can't know exactly what happened, of course. I don't THINK Zimmerman was looking for physical confrontation, because I don't think he's a wanna be tough guy in that sense, he wanted more to be the hero that spotted a burglar for the police. But the only perception of the case was clouded by the initial media narrative, which was that Zimmerman was chasing Martin down with a gun, caught him, and then got beat up, but that's all speculation that wasn't really supported by the geography of where this stuff actually happened, or any other evidence.