training state and local officials to avoid racial profiling, encouraging states to reconsider stand your ground laws, backing new programs that support young black men. >> is there more we can do to give them a sense that their country cares about them and values them and is willing to invest in them? >> reporter: the president made clear he respects the jury's decision. >> they rendered a verdict. and once the jury spoken, that's how our system works. >> reporter: but says he believes the reaction to the verdict has to do with something larger. >> and that all contributes, i think, to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario that from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might