re: #144 Daniel Ballard

Stalking an unarmed kid is not self defense. precipitating a confrontation is not self defense.

Hate is not self defense.

But it’s very hard to prove.

Stalking an unarmed kid is not self defense. precipitating a confrontation is not self defense.

I don’t think there’s anything illegal about following around someone else, though, or confronting them.

Again, the law says:

(3) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.

If it can be shown Zimmerman brandished his weapon or something, that might help, if brandishing is illegal in Florida.