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[quote=Anonymous]More information:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/family-of-trayvon-martin-_n_1332756.html?ref=topbar

[quote][b]Chief Bill Lee of the Sanford Police Department on Thursday evening said the account given by Martin’s family and attorney is correct,[/b] that Zimmerman saw the young man walking home from the store. He said that Zimmerman did indeed call 911 and report a suspicious person, and that he was told not to follow him.

[b]“For some reason he felt that Trayvon, the way that he was walking or appeared seemed suspicious to him,” [/b]Lee said. “He called this in and at one part of this initial call [the dispatcher] recommends him not to follow Trayvon. A police officer is on the way at that point.”

Lee said that Zimmerman instead followed Martin.

“I believe that Mr. Zimmerman was trying to, by his account, find an address to give the officers and also trying to keep Trayvon in eyesight.”

[b]Zimmerman told the police that Martin noticed that he was being followed and asked, “what’s your problem?”

That's when a physical confrontation ensued, Lee said. And moments later, Martin was shot.
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Lee said that [b]Zimmerman has a legal permit to carry the weapon used in the shooting, and that he told police that he shot Martin in self-defense.
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[b]“He felt the need to defend himself,” Lee said. “ I don’t think it was his intent to go and shoot somebody” that night[/b].[/quote]

Absolutely disgusting. If anyone would have felt a need to act out of self-defense, it would have been the teen who was being followed by a [i]truly[/i] suspicious person, a sick man who decided to disregard the advice of the police and confront and kill someone. [/quote]

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