Cooperation and communication for what? George Zimmerman is not a police officer. One of my Black friends told me that it's the strangest thing in the world for them to see how many white people think they have the right to just come up to anyone who doesn't look like them and start questioning them as though they are the police.
Trayvon didn't have any reason to communicate to the man who was following him. Nor did he have any reason to cooperate with the non-police officer.
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Zimmerman was not the police and had no reason to be pursuing anyone as though he were the police
My point was that cooperation and comunication would have solved the problem without bloodshed. If George had spoken to Trayvon instead of simply following him.
"Hey, excuse me, my name is George, I am part of our neighborhood watch program here. Can I help you find a specific address?"
Something like that, then Trayvon would not have thought he was being stalked by someone "creepy."
If Trayvon had turned around and said, "Hey, are you following me?" Instead of jumping out the bushes and attacking George.
I see a lot of could have should have solutions to that night that would have avoided bloodshed, but they all start with either George or Trayvon having the courage to confront the other and
communicate instead of fighting or shooting.
