Charade
<font color=royalblue>I'm the one on the LEFT side
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- Jan 2, 2005
It's probably not manslaughter because when he called 911 he was very deliberately asked if he was following Trayvon and told NOT to follow him. The moment he went against what dispatch told him, he went outside of the law - with gun in hand, so to speak, and there is now considered some premeditation to his actions.
Also, one can shoot a gun 10 - 20 feet away with some accuracy. He got close enough to get into a physical scuffle, so he said. He could have stopped approaching at any time IF his intent was simply to hold Trayvon in place until the police arrived. He deliberately escalated & got into an altercation with Trayvon.
The dispatch said to Zimmerman "we don't need you to follow him". This was not a lawful order so he didn't break any laws by going against that.