re: #366 Daniel Ballard

Does anyone really believe Trayvon was the aggressor?
I just can’t get myself to think so.

We’ll never know for sure. My strongest guess is: Trayvon, frightened and tired of running,puffs himself up, and tells the guy to back off. Zimmerman, hyped up from the chase, and increasingly invested in somehow turning this into an arrest, says, ‘the cops will be here in a minute’, and advances on him. Trayvon, panicked, takes a swing at him, a fight begins, and Zimmerman pulls his weapon.

Less likely, but possible, depending on what Zimmerman’s actual linkage to reality is: instead of telling him the cops are coming, Zimmerman draws his weapon, intending to keep him there. Trayvon, now in fear for his life, makes a lunge for the gun, and the fight starts like that.

In neither case would I call Trayvon the aggressor.

I’m haunted by the suggestion someone made that Trayvon might actually have called 911 himself. With the phone gone…the tapes would still be there. This feels paranoid, but I just have to wonder.