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On a side note, why do you keep bringing up Trayvon's height? What does that have to do with anything?
Two reasons:
1. Because we need context. We can't pretend that Martin was a 5' female being followed in a downtown parking lot in the middle of the night. Under such context, preemptive defense might be justified. However, a full grown male at 7pm in a middle-class neighborhood, surrounded by people eating supper in their homes, has no such justification.
2. Even in ones own neighborhood, following a female or small child might be questionable because such are not likely to be a threat. Following a full grown male stranger, however, is being a concerned neighbor.