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Originally Posted by Fetish Gimp
Zimmerman doesn't need to invoke "Stand Your Ground" because he was being physically attacked, which is proven by the physical evidence. It was straight up self-defence. Treyvon, or more accurately the prosecution, is the one that needs to use it to defend Treyvon's attack on Zimmerman.
I personally can't defend that position. Being followed by some dude at night does not imho give me the right to kill them in self-defence, specially if the person has not shown a weapon or cornered me and demonstrated that they intend to do me harm.
Let's not go and remove Treyvon's accountability either.
If he hadn't gone back to confront Zimmerman and hadn't beaten him up he most likely wouldn't have gotten shot.
There's another thing nobody seems to want to mention. The fact that Zimmerman didn't have his gun out points to Treyvon attacking Zimmerman suddenly, not giving him the time to pull it out and try to make Treyvon stand down.
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How do we know that Treyvon went back and confronted Zimmerman?
We don't.
What we know for sure is that when Zimmerman was on the phone with the police Treyvon ran from the scene. Zimmerman pursued him then when the dispatch person told him that he didn't need to do that he appeared to stop. He said he was going to go meet the police at an agreed upon location.
At some point after he hung up with dispatch he and Treyvon ended up in a confrontation. A fight broke out. Zimmerman appeared to be getting his ass kicked at he shot Treyvon.
How that confrontation came about nobody seems to know. Who followed who? Treyvon's girlfriend who apparently was on the phone with him just before the fight broke out says that Zimmerman chased Treyvon down and confronted him. That sounds a whole lot more plausible than the guy who was running from the scene changing his mind and going back to confront the guy who was looking at him.