Originally Posted by Malorn
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Looks like you found them well-enough on your own. They had crime in the area, and Zimmerman was fixated on black people. There's no indication Martin was in the process of committing a crime when Zimmerman killed him, so presumably there was something about Martin that set Zimmerman off. Maybe it was the Skittles.
Although as an alternative we could go with Gerhaldo Rivera's theory, that it was in fact the hoodie being worn (on a rainy night) rather than Martin's skin pigmentation which made him see the kid as being "suspicious".
Either way, none of this matters. Whether black people are big scary criminals or the area had crime in it, none of it makes it okay to chase someone down with a gun and shoot them.