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Deliberately shoot and kill you. now pause for this, if you're an african-american in this country you're five times as likely to be shot and killed by someone as to do it to yourself. this explains if you think about this amazing number, and i will admit it's only part of the telephone differing attitudes out there on the trayvon martin tragedy, it does explain a vital life and death difference about how we look and feel about guns in this country. if you are black in america, you see the horror up close. it's why you may be wondering why your country refuses to take a minimal step to protect...

And your intentions. it's great to have you on. please come back. up next, the politics in this case is not just black and white but part of it is. why people also see is the case through the right versus left here. by the way, some outrageous thoughts here and voices coming from the right. it's not symmetric, ladies and gentlemen. there's some really crazy stuff coming from the hard right here. this is "hardball," the place for politics. mmitments. mmitments. and we've made a big commitment to america. bp supports nearly 250,000 jobs here. through all of our energy operations, we invest more ...

Know? like, it's racism where, like, you hit me and i take 20 steps away and then i die. >> shaka, i want you to hold your thought. josh with dubois, what to you make of this question of drugs? it didn't come into this trial, but i think it seems like it's a big reason i'm hearing that there's so many young blacks in jail and it's just a fact we ought to look at it. >> yeah, you know, it gets back to how we see young african-american men and boys in this country and that's related to the zimmerman trial. i mean, the fact of the matter is, when george zimmerman looked at trayvon martin, he saw ...

>> i think we get used to that. >> that you wouldn't in this sort of case want the jury to have no african-american jurors. >> i don't think the prosecution believed in the case. i think they had their heart in it, they didn't have a story to tell. they didn't have a case to make. right. both of you, i agree with. they impeached the witness. they impeached the testimony given through videotape and otherwise testimony even with the guy not having to sit in the chair, zimmerman. i didn't get a sense they had a counter story to tell. >> their own story, exactly. >> please come back. you're the be...

The justice department shares your concern. i share your concern. >> welcome back to "hardball." not guilty. that was the final decision by the florida jury acquitting george zimmerman of all charges in the killing of trayvon martin but those weren't the last words in this case. as we've been seeing. attorney general holder you saw just there says his department of justice has placed the case under review. as it examines whether or not zimmerman violated any civil rights statutes. some 450,000 people have signed an naacp petition urging the justice department to file those charges. well, the m...