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Young boys in george zimmermans community feeling like he targeted them unfairly. and the real bigger question for our country is, why is it that so many young people of color feel that the good guys, be they self-appointed good guys or be they cops, confuse color as grounds for suspicion? race as grounds for suspicion. a hoodie as grounds for suspicion. thats what we as a country really need to focus on in this moment is how can we do better to make sure there are no more trayvons. >> it also b...

Brother and it read, our whole family is relieved today. im proud to be an american. god bless america. thank you for your prayers. joining me, msnbcs melissa perry-harris. ladies, good to have you here. melissa, i want your reaction out of the gate on that tweet because george zimmermans father saying hes proud to be an american. there is going toob relief from the zimmerman family because of this verdict. >> there are some people here we need not ever go after, and one is the jury. i think the...

Mr. zimmermans statements into their case in chief, prosecution. prosecutors usually dont put statements where a defendant says, im not guilty, in their case in chief. if they didnt do that, that would have forced george zimmermans hand to testify if he had wanted to get the self-defense charge to the jury. and then his inconsistencies would have been confronted. so i think from the beginning of this case, i knew it was going downhill, im saddened to say. >> hindsight being 20/20 of what it is a...

They rushed out of the courtroom basically as soon as the verdict -- as soon as they were able to. >> certainly palpable for both sides. alexis, what are you hearing about how sanford is absorbing this and taking it in? >> basically the people in sanford are not that surprised. theres a feeling in the black community, especially goldsboro area, that the police have never been on their side, so a sense of apathy, a sense of being dejected and underscoring a feeling thats been going on for many de...

Information they needed. and they may not have even understood it given what their background was. >> ill give you the last word here. >> i think the jury probably thought george zimmerman did profile trayvon martin. and they may have disliked him for that. but what they had to focus on was that his head was being slammed on cement at the time the fatal shot was fired. he was screaming for help. nobody helped him. so, they could have disliked him. they may even think hes racist, but the law only...