You keep using a rational mind or irrational mind like that is some sort of legal argument.
I don't need it to be a legal argument and don't care if it is or isn't.
Zimmerman was not chasing Martin. The dispatcher said "we don't need you to do that" when they thought Zimmerman was chasing Martin. Zimmerman responded "OK".
What you say is entirely true. My only contention is that this dialog happened immediately following the part where the dispatcher asked, "are you following him?" Zimmerman replies, "yeah". They didn't
think he was chasing him, they asked him and he told them he was.
Zimmerman said he no longer saw Martin and the dispatcher asked if he still wanted the police to come. He said yes and realized he didn't know the exact address where he was and didn't want to give his home address, so he said he would find a nearby address. Not crazy or irrational. It was sometime in the next 4 minutes that the fight started.
That's what happened on the phone call but his reenactment video tells another story. His entire point of getting out of the car was to find a street sign so he could tell them where he was at that moment, not where he lived. This is in his written statement and he makes it very clear he was getting out to get a street sign because he says it twice. Once he didn't find a street sign he decided to go across the street for an address, an address he was ultimately never able to provide.
Him not wanting to tell the dispatcher his address doesn't mean anything because he claims he was going to get the address of where he currently was. Supposedly he was going to have the cops meet him at this address (I guess, I don't know what else he would do with it) but for some reason he never gave an address, even when asked a direct question about the house he was in front of. To top it off, he then asks to have the police call him so he can tell them where he was.
Essentially, he supposedly wasn't following him but was looking for an address. After getting out of his truck and looking for this address he then describes the location of his truck to the dispatcher cause that's where they were going to meet, apparently making the entire address hunt useless. When asked for a specific address after that he can't give one and then he changes things up again by asking to be called so he can tell them where he would be.
If you haven't watched his reenactment video, I would encourage you to do so and pair it up with what happens on the phone call.
All evidence points to Martin striking Zimmerman first and severely and the one sided beating continued for almost a minute. Zimmerman begged a neighbor help repeatedly. When the neighbor ran upstairs to call the police instead of physically helping, Zimmerman finally pulled his gun and shot one, deadly shot. He didn't empty his clip or run away. He asked another neighbor to call 911 and waited for the Police to arrive. He was treated on sight for his injuries and willingly surrendered. He was interrogated for 3 hours without requesting a lawyer and they found his story credible.
The only "evidence" of how the confrontation went down is from Zimmerman. His story doesn't exactly pair up with the phone call so excuse me for being a little skeptical that he was just walking back to his truck after apparently being unable to find an address that he set out to get minutes prior and that he wouldn't have ultimately needed once he asked for the police to call him. The only thing the evidence points to is that Zimmerman was losing a fist fight.
