(replying to discussion of facts in this case from another thread)
True. The point is GZ started the ball rolling.
No - because no reasonable person would have responded the way TM did. *You can't blame people engaged in lawful behavior for other peoples criminal and extreme overreaction.
Only two people were witness to the full interaction between George and Trayvon that night. George killed the other one and anything he says can be presumed to be self serving.
We can hypothesize an alternate scenario that is consistent with the known evidence. Continuing from my earlier post where I looked at the wind noise as George crossed The cut-through to Retreat view circle, George says he is looking for a street sign. Anyone that lives and drives in that neighborhood would know that the street signes are at the intersections of the roads and the nearest intersection is to the south. George is still on the phone as he is walking south along RVC where there are many nearby hiding places where someone could overhear as he starts to give out his home address. George asks the operator to have the officer call him. By the time the NEN call ends, George would be nearing the intsection. There he would read the street sign so he would have a reference to tell the officer where he was and he would look around for the suspect.
From there, George would begin returning to his truck. If he retraces his steps on RVC or stays on Twin Trees Lane there would never have been an encounter so we can presume that George walks back on the path between the houses.
Trayvon who had run East from the Mailboxes and into the cut-through turned south at the tee and once out of sight stopped to catch his breath. He is near his father's house and if he sees the stranger comming down the path he can easily run home. He continues his talk with Rachael as he watches the path to the north.
Trayvon tells Rachael "now he's behind me". While Trayvon had been watching the path to the north, George had circled around and was comming up the path from the South cutting off Trayvon's retreat home. As George approaches Trayvon asks "why are you following me" and George demands: "what are you doing here?" Rachael tells Trayvon to run. Trayvon says he is not going to run, that he is going to walk fast. George runs and catches Trayvon, grabbing him from behind and Rachael hears the bump as Trayvon's headset is dislodged. With George on his back, Trayvon says "get off, get off" and swings from side to side trying to dislodge the unwanted passenger. The swinging throws Trayvon's cell phone from his pocket and Trayvon gets his arms free and swings his elbows towards George's head. The blows land and George is thrown backwards landing his head on the hard concrete.
The ground fight is uneventful. Trayvon sits on top of George and controls George's arms so he cannot try to punch him. Trayvon would call for help but George is already doing that. Finally a resident comes out saying "cut that out, I'm calling 911". This is Trayvon's cue that the fight is over so Trayvon releases George and begins to get up.
So, that is my reading of what could have happened. A 17 year old kid minding his own business, walking home from the store, talking to his girl on the phone. And a hothead packing a pistol out to stop those ******** that always get away. Trayvon did absolutely nothing wrong. He tried to avoid conflict by running, talking and walking away and when assaulted he returned a measured response to stop the assault and waited for help to defuse the situation. George on the other hand did everything to escalate the situation. He followed, chased, continued to hunt, demanded, physically attacked and in the end drew his pistol and fataly shot Trayvon.
Until you can prove that it didn't happen this way, your claim that Trayvon was at fault is unfounded.
