Originally Posted by cmac2012

Can you spell "vast oversimplification" boys and girls? Zimmerman had a bit of thug like behavior in this drama also. In spite of his once having the hots for a black girl, he had been going round his neighborhood warning people about black youths. He went over the dark side, assuming that all blacks are criminals. There is no progress possible with such an attitude, just a slow slide to some sort of race war.

You have no clue, other than the self-serving words of GZ, that he didn't threaten TM in a way that moved TM to feel he was in danger from this dude, not a cop, who was shadowing him.