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>> i do. i think if you were to take any other case that happens on a daily basis throughout america, a death where there's two african-americans or death where there's two whites, the reality is we don't ever hear about it. i can't think of one national story that's ever come to the public attention like this where it's been a same race situation. because of the fact you have a hispanic or white hispanic, however one would classify mr. zimmerman and you have trayvon martin, who's african-american, i think without question, particularly in sanford, where there's history. i will tell you i thin...

You can hear the protesters in the surrounding area boo'ing the police. this is definitely an escalation of what we've seen earlier, prime minister erdogan making good on his threat. water cannons over here, tear gas over there, protesters here are very serious about their message. doesn't look like they're going to go home any time soon. ian lee, cnn, turkey. >> thank you very much. for many, a pope's blessing is very special and cherished even. some folks took their most cherished possessions for a special pope blessing next. here is where our engineers do their constant improving. we have...

People don't understand who we're dealing with here. >> yeah. i still would do the same thing. chief lee's a 30-year career law enforcement officer. he's had a stellar career with 27 years with the, with the seminole county sheriff's department, he also taught at seminole state college. he has had an absolute unblemished career. he is a deck crated officer, he is an -- decorated officer, he is a truly honorable man who is loved by those in the law enforcement profession. our officers absolutely would follow chief lee anywhere. chief lee is the chief that they wanted. the men and women who who ...

Were two commissioners who adamantly opposed his hiring. just getting him hired was, quite frankly, a debacle to get through. there is one commissioner particular who's had it in for chief lee since the day he stepped into that office. i think that the majority of our commission really, really looked past what's right and what's wrong and looked at this from a political perspective, and, um, quite frankly, i think we have other commissioners who just refused to accept no matter how far away we get from the incident and how deeply we get into looking at the facts we have commissioners who just ...

Resign, but a deeply-divided city commission voted not to accept that resignation after a fiery debate. listen here to commissioner patty mahaney as she defended chief lee back then. >> what did the chief do wrong? what did the chief do wrong? i mean, tell us. sit here for those of y'all that know more about law enforcement than i do and tell us what the chief did wrong. [applause] megyn: joining mow now once again -- me now once again, patty mahaney. now chief lee has been forced out, fired by the rest of the commission. why? >> well, quite frankly, megyn, it's almost too long of a story to t...