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Originally Posted by eroticsexxx
Martin would have had been justified in his use of force due to his initial avoidance of a potential conflict (running away). However, Zimmerman kept coming after him.
Martin had a reasonable fear that the person who was watching him and then left their vehicle to follow him on foot (at night throughout the neighborhood) would harm him.
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Seriously? He was in a gated community, not in some horrible third world ghetto. It wasn't as if the place was deserted, there were plenty of houses he could have ran to and rang for help.
Martin had a cellular phone, he could have called 911.
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Originally Posted by eroticsexxx
If you saw someone watching you at night and began running in the opposite direction and found that they wouldn't stop following you, what would you eventually do?
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Err, not confront them?
Sure, let me run right at the potential murdering maniac, that's sure to make things better and safer for me. Confronting dangerous people head-on is always the safest thing to do.
And it wasn't some kind of four hour manhunt, this happened in the space of a few minutes.