let me go back to billy martin in this. in your sense, let's get to the question of the attorney general here. he is definitely in the determining seat here, not just the hot seat. he has to make a judgment call whether there is a good case to be made about a civil rights violation here. what do you see? >> chris, i had the pleasure of serving as a federal prosecutor with the attorney general. i know the attorney general. i know that he will look at this. he and his staff will look at this to see if zimmerman's prior statements, his prior positions brought race into it. and they can show that he was, in fact, violating trayvon martin's civil rights. he'll look at it. it did not come in this trial because of some of the rulings of the court. >> yeah. >> but the totality of the circumstances will let him decide if george zimmerman actually profiled and stalked trayvon martin, and that leads to civil rights violation. should it be investigated. >> let me get down to the narrow point here. i don't want to say anything that offe

joining me now, former prosecutor marcia clark and billy martin.u. >> hello, reverend. >> billy, big picture moving forward. how did the prosecution do, and what do the defense attorneys have to respond to? >> well, the prosecution put in a lot of evidence, reverend, but i think they opened the door for defense council to really go at and try to poke holes in their case. and they did so. i think the defense has done a very good job. now, i'm not in the courtroom and i can't see the reaction of the jury. but by putting on a detective to talk about the story or the statement that mr. zimmerman made, it allowed zimmerman's story to come out in the prosecution's case. it brought zimmerman into the prosecution's case. on the web of lies they're trying to show that he lacks credibility. but there is a risk whenever you try that tactic. and that risk is that you keep allowing the defense to put his case in during the prosecution's case. so while they have put in a lot of evidence, they've also allowed zimmerman to attack and take away from some of the str

george zimmerman admitted to shooting and killing unarmed teenager, 17-year-old trayvon martin and at the time billy> we were investigating the death of trayvon martin, which was a tragedy. you know, it -- we wanted to find out what truly happened and seek justice. >> reporter: lee says the investigation started that night. they took george zimmerman into custody for questioning, but he claimed self-defense and the sanford police department let him go. your lead investigator suggested manslaughter on that initial police report. why is it that, you know, for 40 plus days george zimmerman walked a freeman? >> the laws of the state of florida and the constitution require you to have probable cause to arrest someone, that the evidence and the testimony that we had didn't get us to probable cause. you know, if we had people that were witnesses that could tell us that the self-defense claim or the way george zimmerman said things happened, that contradicted that, then we certainly may have probable cause. >> reporter: martin's parents hired benjamin crump, a skilled civil rights lawyer and lit the nationa

martin. plus billy porter, the tony award winning star of "kinky boots" comes to nerdland. first, 100 rallies nationwide has us talking about the very point of protest. >>> good morning, i'm melissa harris-perry. in scores of cities across the country yesterday people frustrated by the verdict in the george zimmerman trial gatheredous federal court houses for peaceful justice for trayvon vigils organization nufd by the reverend al sharpton's national action network. >> we just watched from atlanta to miami to chicago, over 100 cities. we're standing up today for justice for trayvon martin. >> participants spoke out against the violence that claimed trayvon martin's martin's life and so many others. trayvon's father was in miami. >> this could be any one of our children. our mission now is to make sure this doesn't happen to your child. we're going to continue to stand together, we're going to continue to unite. we're going to let them know that our lives matter just as much as your lives. >> the gathering of so many people with crowds numbering in the hundreds in cities see

billy in texas -- oh, really? >> caller: so zimmerman doesn't turn out to be the monster that you people made him out to be. trayvon martinshow. trayvon martin felt he had a right to take a swing at george zimmerman -- >> how do you know. >> caller: if he hadn't taken a swing at george zimmerman, he wouldn't have been shot -- >> stephanie: how do you know that? >> caller: because that's what has been adjudicated. [overlapping speakers] >> caller: stephanie. >> stephanie: y'all are mean. >> current tv said their building just shook road flair made that comment -- so we need to make sure jacki is okay. >> you know what! >> stephanie: i need to play the message he left on my phone -- >> no. no. >> stephanie: the most creative use of the c word i have ever heard. hello, cara in chicago. >> caller: hello, steph, how are you? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: i love the show. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: i initially called to speak about the latin who felt left out of the racial issue -- >> stephanie: oh, right. >> caller: but i want to comment about the man who called talking about black babies being born out of wedlock. i

they said if trayvon martin had been from sanford, nothing would have happened, no protest, just another dead guy. you bring in bill lee, billytle bit. they felt there was unfairness here. serino continued to investigate under a great deal of pressure. you would have the department that night telephone the state attorney for seminole county and advise they don't have enough to hold zimmerman. they let him go. thirteen days go by, suddenly there's protests, a lot of pressure. you had a cousin of george zimmerman call into the department speak to an african-american officer two days after the shooting and say she thought her cousin was capable of doing something wrong. this is witness nine, a witness we may or may not see. you have a department where the chief did an press conference, we're not arresting this guy. he kept investigating. then he filed an affidavit saying he believed manslaughter charges should be filed. there's a lot of question as to why he supposedly voluntarily decided to be demoted essentially from investigator to a beat cop, a patrol officer. it's never been officially answered. officially we're told he wan