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The lawyers should definitely use his 911 call to prove he was following Martin and they would be crazy not to. But thats as far as it's useful to go with it in the trial. To establish that he felt some need to follow him.
Personally, I think the fact that he tied burglaries to blacks is what disrupts any usefullness of using the phrase racial profiling in the legal case. That falls under a person fitting the description of a known burglar. In other words you cant say that he wouldnt have said nearly the same things if it was that 7 foot redhead and there've been reports of tall redheads commiting burglaries. Whats the key phrase there? It's not his description, it's the actions tied to a person of that description.
I don't think it's wrong to talk about race at all. I just think the prosecution should not throw it out there as if he should be convicted for racial profiling. He obviously felt he should follow him and his "reasons" are right on the phone call. Once you imply he was racist, then you're going to get a slew of friends coming in saying he wasn't.
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