The big, Black, scary, gangsta imagery of dying “in the streets,” especially, for someone unarmed who was still a minor, had transformed Trayvon Martin “from a 5’8”, 158 lbs. tall, 17-year-old,” into a six-foot-tall, “pot-smoking, hoodie-wearing, jewelry stealing, aggressive thug, who had attacked a man who was older, less athletic, and vulnerable. The only equalizer was a 9mm.”
