Originally Posted by Robbie

Hang on a minute...I think that Zimmerman obviously didn't "confront" him correctly. If you or anybody else came up to me all cocky and demanded what i was doing...I'd tell you "fuck off, it's a free country"

Now if you came up to me and politely explained that there had been some robberies in the neighborhood and you were the Neighborhood Watch...Then I would politely explain that I was walking to the house and thank you for keeping an eye on the neighborhood.

But nobody has to explain shit to anybody else.

I think that GZ probably didn't approach him with the correct attitude. (short guys are always over aggressive anyway in my experience) Then TM, being young and full of testosterone, felt disrespected and started kicking his ass.

It was obviously a bad situation all the way around.
I'm guessing that the gun gave GZ a false sense of bravado and he should have just stayed in the truck. But hindsight IS 20/20

And now a young man is dead. GZ's life is over too. And both families are ruined.