You are correct. You can certainly follow someone if you so desire. What isn't likely is that you won't be confronted for doing that. When I was younger, I most certainly would have run my a$$ off to get away from that person. Nowadays, I'd just turn around and tell them to buzz off.
JMO, MOO, IMHO, TM didn't start the confrontation or assault GZ. How convenient for GZ that the only other witness to what happened is DEAD. Shot a close range, in the chest. Armed with only his fists. None of GZ's story makes sense to me, other than the part where he, armed with a gun, began to pursue a young, black man through the complex.
TM lived in Florida so let us assume for the moment that he was familiar with the SYG law. However much any of you want to deny this, there is an automatic response to young black men in a neighborhood, especially if you don't know them. He is a visitor at someone's home. He's been to the store and he's on his way home. He's 17, out by himself and talking on his cellphone with his girlfriend. He notices he's being watched and then followed by someone he doesn't know. He's unfamiliar with the complex and is trying to get his bearings so he can get back home.
What do you imagine his first reaction would be? Fear? Anger? Uncertainty? He puffs up his 17 yo chest and turns to fight someone who he may think is carrying a gun? My money is on him trying to run. I have been wrong before and I may be wrong about this but that's how I see it.
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and hopefuly at the end of this they will correct this law.
