Zimmerman took a black girl to the prom and started a company with a black partner. His black neighbors who he met with on watch reported no issues. His 911 calls, though high in number, spanned the spectrum in terms of the races of the people he reported.
The unrecognized tragedy of the incident is that police budgets were dropping in the town and the county at the time, and things were getting worse (though not as bad as now). An elderly couple in that neighborhood reported that when they asked the police to help protect them the officers told them to get an alarm and a big dog. Zimmerman was reacting to these conditions, which is not to say whether his actions were reasonable or not - but rather that if the state abandons the provision of safety, bad things happen.
Zimmerman took a black girl to the prom and started a company with a black partner. His black neighbors who he met with on watch reported no issues. His 911 calls, though high in number, spanned the spectrum in terms of the races of the people he reported.
The unrecognized tragedy of the incident is that police budgets were dropping in the town and the county at the time, and things were getting worse (though not as bad as now). An elderly couple in that neighborhood reported that when they asked the police to help protect them the officers told them to get an alarm and a big dog. Zimmerman was reacting to these conditions, which is not to say whether his actions were reasonable or not - but rather that if the state abandons the provision of safety, bad things happen.