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Young boys in george zimmerman's 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. that's 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 boils down, i feel strongly about this, otherness factor. and coming from a place of looking at peo...

Brother and it read, our whole family is relieved today. i'm proud to be an american. god bless america. thank you for your prayers. joining me, msnbc's melissa perry-harris. ladies, good to have you here. melissa, i want your reaction out of the gate on that tweet because george zimmerman's father saying he's 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 jury, as difficult as it is for me to say this, as much as i think this is the wrong decision a...

Mr. zimmerman's statements into their case in chief, prosecution. prosecutors usually don't put statements where a defendant says, i'm not guilty, in their case in chief. if they didn't do that, that would have forced george zimmerman's 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, i'm saddened to say. >> hindsight being 20/20 of what it is and the fact this case was aggressively pursued from the outset and then angela corey was broug...

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. there's 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 that's been going on for many decades. >> in your twitter you sent this out last night. drove around sanford, some heated discussi...

Information they needed. and they may not have even understood it given what their background was. >> i'll 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 he's racist, but the law only asks the question, did he fear serious bodily injury? if so, he had a right to kill. >> john burr...