Much has been made of Trayvon Martin’s age, a relatively young 17 to his shooter’s 28. It has been used as an emotional trigger to inhibit all rational analyses of the events that occurred 16 months ago, during which a high-school student with drugs in his system blindsided a neighborhood...
If you were being followed by an adult male at night what would you do? I for one, would be terrified, and if he got too close I’d kill him before he could kill me. Leaving your car to follow someone is not self defense. Ignore police orders and following a child is not self defense.