been carrying a firearm instead of Skittles.  That way, when he got freaked out by the guy following him he could have shot him in protection of his life.  Once authorities saw Zimmerman's gun and heard Martin's account of being pursued through a dark neighborhood at night he would have not committed a crime.  For the life of me I do not understand the effort to dance on the grave of a dead 17 year old who was ensared in a fight to protect himself.  We do not know who started the fight, we know what instigated it (Zimmerman following Martin), but we'll never know for sure who threw the first punch or what happened in that fight since there is only one witness still alive, the witness who instigated the whole situation via his dogged pursuit of a person not committing a crime.  It is sickening that people want to turn a dead kid into a villain.  Absolutely sickening, but also enlightening at the same time.