Sanford Police Chief Shot Himself In The Foot!

The Sanford Police Chief Was Told To Bounce After His Officers Botched Up The Trayvon Martin Case!

Damn I just though he shot himself in the foot when he found out that the Sanford city manager gave him the pink slip. After botching up the Trayvon Martin murder, Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee was bounced right out of the police headquarters.

Lying low for a time, Lee came under fire after his officers allowed accused shooter George Zimmerman walk. Zimmerman claimed self-defense when he got into a confrontation with Martin. He shot the teenager once and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to CNN, Lee had submitted a resignation letter in April that said he was stepping down, but city commissioners voted not to accept it.

Also Wednesday, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office released 911 tapes of calls placed the morning after the shooting, when police had still not identified the 17-year--old victim. He was unarmed and carrying no identification when he was shot while walking to his father's girlfriend's house after picking up some snacks at a nearby store.

In the first call, Trayvon Martin's father, Tracy Martin, calls police at 8:39 a.m. asking to file a missing persons report, which typically would not be accepted until 24 hours after a person has been discovered missing. "It hasn't really been 24 hours," he tells the police dispatcher. "But I'm from Miami and my son's up here with me ... he don't know anybody up here."

In the return call, placed nine minutes later, the dispatcher tells the victim's father that an officer is en route to where he was staying.

Lee had said Zimmerman was not charged in the shooting because there were no grounds to disprove his account of the events -- that Martin had attacked him. Since then, Zimmerman has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

The incident sparked a national debate as to whether the shooting was an act of racial profiling by Zimmerman and about the state's "stand-your-ground" law.

During an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in New Orleans, Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, said the family has been heartened by the response from the community.

"It's just nice to see so many people that support us, so many people that walk up to us just to give us a hug. 

Just to tell us that they support us," she said. "It does the heart good. Yes, we still are hurting. We just had to go through a Mother's Day and a Father's Day and it hurts. It just hurts."

 Listen to the 911 call from Tracy Martin courtesy of Jane Valez-Mitchell and CNN.



Now unearthed is the apparent description of the confrontation described by George Zimmerman. Courtesy of Good Morning America through ABC News.



According to the defense team of George Zimmerman, the teenager slammed the man's head on the ground and he called for help. Zimmerman claimed that Trayvon Martin saw his gun and tried to reach for it, so I guess he decided to pull it out and shoot him. Once again, this is a shaky story seeing that Zimmerman was told not to follow the teenager. And for one thing, I thought the firearm was hidden in his coat. How could the teenager see the gun if it was hidden?

Anyways, Zimmerman is still held in jail on contempt of court and had his bond revoked. Zimmerman and his wife were lying about how much money they've raised to help his defense. Zimmerman had gotten a lower bond and the prosecutors found out that his wife Shellie was told to hide money and his secondary passport if he was to be found not guilty.