I think it was a perfect storm. Zimmerman was the head of the neighborhood watch in a gated community to which the police had been called 400 times in the previous year. There had been several burglaries, thefts, and a shooting.Ok he is 80or 90% White with a little Native South American mixed in. Are you happy now?
Murders happen everywhere, everyday. 9 times out of 10 it is intraracial. Everyday you don't seen teenage boys get stalked, assaulted, and murdered by grown men with anger issues that get off scot-free.
So, you have an overzealous Barney with a gun , who saw it as his calling to keep the community safe. Then, you have a teen with an attitude, confronted by Barney, and the teen decides to go tough man on him. Fearing for his life, and possessing a gun, Barney pulls said gun, and shoots the teen. Perfect storm.
I wasn't there, but you apparently were. I am going on court and eyewitness testimony. You are going on a black killed by what you think is a white. We whiteys don't claim mixed races like you all do. Obama to you is a black man. We agree on that, even though he is just as white as he is black.