Watch: Trevor Noah describes how Philando Castile footage 'broke' him

Watching a recently released video documenting the last moments of Philando Castile's life tore Trevor Noah apart, he told Wednesday's Daily Show audience.

"When I watched this video it broke me — it just broke me," he shared after playing a clip from the graphic video in which the 32-year-old was fatally shot by police officer Jeronimo Yanez. During a traffic stop last July, Castile can be heard explaining that he had a firearm when Yanez fired seven shots into the vehicle carrying Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her 4-year-old daughter. The Minnesota police officer was acquitted of manslaughter on June 16.

While Noah acknowledged that one can "start to get numb" after seeing similar videos, he said, "Seeing the child, that little girl, getting out of the car after watching a man get killed, it broke my heart into little pieces."

"I thought of every joke people make about 'Oh, the most confusing day in the hood is Father's Day," he added. "'People don't know where their parents are. Haha, black dads.' That's a black dad that's gone. That's a child that grows up not knowing what it's like to have somebody in their life."

"Forget race, are we all watching the same video?" he continued. "The video where a law-abiding man followed the officer’s instructions to the letter of the law and was killed regardless? People watched that video and then voted to acquit?"

Noah then wondered if the jury might've determined the cop was reasonably afraid because of the color of Castile's skin.

"It's one thing to have the system against you, the district attorneys, the police unions, the courts — that's one thing," the Comedy Central host said. "But when a jury of your peers, your community, sees this evidence and decides that even this is self-defense that is truly depressing because what they're basically saying is in America, it is officially reasonable to be afraid of a person just because they are black."