I have a hard time with someone aggressively following and approaching someone, armed, inciting a fight, starting to get beat, shooting and killing their target, and then calling self-defense or "stand-your-ground." That's neither in the spirit of self defense or stand your ground in my opinion. Zimmerman was clearly the original perpetrator, harassing a person who didn't deserve it.
There's no way he can be justifiably exonerated. He may not be guilty of pre-mediated murder. (He may, but I don't know of any such evidence aside from going out armed, looking to get in a tangle.) But he's guilty of being an asshole, starting a fight, and killing someone as a result of his actions.
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