(05-12-2020, 11:00 AM)Olive Wrote: Tell me the difference between this shooting, and the Trayvon Martin shooting. Guy with a gun follows person he believes may be committing a crime. Man with a gun follows Trayvon Martin … Martin attacks the guy with a gun that is following him and gets shot. The main difference is a video.

It is not illegal to follow someone. Well, unless a Judge has ruled on such a stalking, or distance requirement.

I could see this ending the same way it did in the George Zimmerman outcome. I hope not, but I can’t recognize how this is wildly different.

Zimmerman never claimed he was trying to initiate a citizen's arrest.
Zimmerman claimed that he followed Trayvon, which is legal, but lost track of him, only for Trayvon to sneak up on him from behind and attack him.
There was only limited eyewitness testimony, no video, it was rainy and dark, and no one saw everything from beginning to end.
I think the state had enough evidence to convict Zimmerman on negligent homicide or manslaughter or something similar, but the state went for murder 2, and they never had enough evidence for that.

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