of further investigation. that s what the concern was. why are there protests and rallies in the case of trayvon martin and not other instances? it s because trayvon martin s death would have been unnoticed by official police powers had it not been for the protests. chief lee says they were investigating but said they didn t have enough to build a case. david webb, i m glad we ve been able to get you in. you said this case is not about profiling. we don t know what his assumptions were so we can t draw that distinction. but in the circumstance i think it s fair to say that had he seen a white person in a hoodie exhibiting the same behavior, based on what we know about him, he would have acted the same way. when it comes to the fact, and we have to stick with the facts on this, jake, that in florida you can charge on bias and
sense of normality. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. 800,000 naacp signatures, 15,000 on a white house web site, all calling on the obama administration to act in the wake of george zimmerman s not guilty verdict. this amid a second full day of civil rights demonstrations reverberating around the country and across social media platforms. despite the outrage among activists, the white house is making it clear the president won t be involved in that decision. let s go to the white house. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin has the very latest. jessica, what are you hearing? reporter: well, civil rights advocates say they believe trayvon martin was shot because he was black and that is a hate crime. so now they want to see him face federal charges. that is a very high standard to meet and the obama administration is busy setting
such a case. now, i would expect that you could hear the president address the broader issue of trayvon martin s death when he answers reporters questions in interviews later this week, wolf. has the justice department, i don t know in you know the answer to this, clarified what eric holder said when he said this is an unnecessary shooting death? have they explained what he meant by that? they have not officially put out any word on that, wolf. i can tell you i have been led to believe we should not read too much into those word. we should not interpret that to indicate which way the justice department will go on the larger decision about whether there is a hate crimes case here or not, wolf. thank you, jessica yellin over at the white house. let s bring in our chief political analyst, gloria borger, to further assess what s going on right now. how much of this decision eventually by the attorney general and the justice department, let s say the obama
hostility, zimmerman s anger. that was the evidence that the government tried to put forward here. that was a big part of the government s case. and for whatever reason, the jury didn t buy it. so the u.s. attorney, the united states justice department is going to have to decide what s different, what can we bring to this case that the united states government that the florida state government didn t bring, and why would we win when they lost. it s slightly different under the law, but it s not that different. and, you know, the question is what would be different at a trial? at this point, i don t know. we re going to continue this. but one of the things some of the trayvon martin family lawyers have suggested is there are a whole bunch of other 911 calls that george zimmerman made and they insist all of them involved what they called suspected black males walking around the neighborhood there in sanford, florida. again, don t go away, hold on. we ve got more to discuss, including
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