A community watch volunteer killed an unarmed teen on racial suspicion

Evidence

George Zimmerman, a self-appointed community watch volunteer, acting on suspicion suggestive of racial profiling, pursued and killed an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin. Martin was returning home from a local store with candy and iced tea. Zimmerman left his car and continued to pursue Martin on foot even though the police dispatcher told him not to do so. In the ensuing altercation, Zimmerman shot and killed Martin. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1214

Categorization

• XREF: Core case study tying racial profiling to lethal force under a permissive self-defense law; connects to the vault’s Islamophobia/racism rationalization claims.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1214