no, you are the uninformed bigot who is making your racist judgment based on your insanely ignorant bias of blacks and other minorities....he was 17 years old. middle class. no arrests, no record, was staying at a nice house watching the NBA playoffs, and went and got an iced tea and some skittles at halftime, and was walking back when this ass Zimmerman, who has been in trouble ever since this incident, had a restraining order put out on his redneck punk ass, decided to stalk him on his way back home, carrying his gun. The kid was talking to his girl friend and said some guy was following him and it was pretty spooky. this was not real late at night. he had no gun, he was by himself, armed only with a can of iced tea and some skittles. 75' from being safe at his house, Zimmerman and the kid got into a fight. Zimmerman must have started it. When they found the kid, he still had his skittles and iced tea right there- if you were going to assault someone, someone you could tell was bigger than you, would you still be carrying your can of ice tea and skittles with you when you jumped him? but they did fight- with the only witness being the kid the total thug punk Zimmerman shot when the kid started kicking his gutless ass. The kid was the one standing his ground...senseless bigoted piece of crap.