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Being paid his full salary? >> yes, he is. he's on paid administrative leave. >> so that's the most expensive possible outcome here, that you end up paying this chief for a couple of years during this criminal process that's going on in the zimmerman case. >> that's the challenge. i don't think it's a couple of years. we should be able to have something within three or four months, but it's a long time to keep everything on hold. and that's why the chief made the agreement to go ahead and to separate. >> and what happened to fiscal responsibility in this city commissioner? it seems to me just ...

Attack on this community from outsiders. i'm physically sick that people i have been living with in this community for 53 years and had the utmost respect for and genuinely liked and thought were friends would turn on me so viciously. i'm absolutely disgusted. megyn: wow, mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. wow! >> reporter: we'll have more from her. it's important to remember. go back. when the trayvon martin shooting happened. the chief bill lee said he decided not to arrest him because of florida's stand your ground law. he said any charges would be up to the county prosecutor. he...

Separation agreement, but needed the city commission's approval. just one month ago, that same sanford city commission passed a vote of no confidence in that same police chief, bill lee, a 3-2 vote. lee temporarily stepped down the next day, citing these concerns. >> i do this in the hopes of restoring some semblance of calm to the city, which has been in turmoil for several weeks. >> captain darren scott will remain as acting police chief. george zimmerman was released on $150,000 bond just after midnight today. that's early this morning. he is now fitted with an electronic monitoring device....

Yesterday. she tearfully told the jury that none of them wanted her sister to marry the defendant william balfour. she said she was so close to her mom that she slept with her until she was 16 years old. hudson has vowed to be in that courtroom every single day. >> such a tragic story. just when you thought the uproar over the trayvon martin case in sanford, florida, may simmer down, think again. >> city commissioners voted to keep the controversial police chief bill lee on the job, even though he wanted to resign. as abc's scott goldberg reports, that decision came hours after george zimmer...

Opposed? >> aye. >> approved to deny the memorandum at this time. >> in a shocking 3-2 vote today, the sanford city commission rejected the resignation of sanford police chief bill lee. city manager norton bonaparte jr. and chief lee had reached a separation agreement, but needed the city commission's approval. just one month ago, that same sanford city commission passed a vote of no confidence in that same police chief, bill lee, a 3-2 vote. lee temporarily stepped down the next day, citing these concerns. >> i do this in the hopes of restoring some semblance of calm to the city, which has be...