He did... not even a minute into the altercation... when GZ shot and killed him.
I'll re-iterate... GZ was told NOT to follow TM and he was NOT LE. He had no right to question ANYONE and TM had no obligation to stop and answer a strange man's questions when all he was doing was coming home to watch TV and sleep.
Stalking/profiling and killed are all legal terms so not really sure how emotional they are. IMO it's what happened.
If TM was a kid with a sense of "entitlement" he probably would have been driving home in a SAAB and not walking almost a mile to get some snacks.... all MOO of course.
ETA: The TSA have a "LEGAL" authority to make you take your shoes off and search you
Actually, I believe this assertion to be false.
GZ was *not* told *not* to follow TM.
He was told that it was not *necessary*.
I believe the exact words were, "Okay, we don't need you to do that."
That is not very strong language. "Do not do that" and "I don't need you to do that" are not the same.
Consider that GZ had called in suspicious persons before, and LE arrived and was unable to locate them because of the time it took them to arrive and the fact that the suspicious individuals had left the premises (or hidden). IIRC, a crime or two occurred in the time it took LE to arrive after a called-in report of a suspicious person.
If I lived in a neighborhood that had been plagued with breaking and entering episodes, and had experienced LE not being able to arrive in time to detain people because they were gone by the time LE got there, if someone who was not present to see what I could see told me I did not *need* to maintain visual contact with a suspicious person, well...
My thought would be, "You aren't here. You can't see what I can see - that he just turned a corner and could end up going one of three different directions while he's out of my line of vision. You probably don't know that half the time when I call, the police get here too late to find anybody I called about. So *you* may not think me maintaining visual contact is necessary... but I'm the one with boots on the ground in my neighborhood - on the sidewalk where I walk my dog every single night - and I know that if the police are going to question the guy I'm watching, I *will* need to be able to tell them specifically where he is. I know from experience that I do *need* to keep watching him. If I don't, there will have been no point to my having made this call in the first place."