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Doing, the police i should say, by not responding and, you know, people here are saying that as much as bill lee has obviously messed up, this is still about arresting zimmerman. it's almost an insult to the intelligence for them to say he is temporarily stepping aside. nobody can figure out what that means. everybody knows you get fired, you quit, temporarily steppinging aside is not a term we can figure out in hr slapping or hr-ese, whatever that means. so it's an insult to the intelligence and to me it's a thumb up the nose from him. that all that needs to happen is that there needs to be a...

How can this man not be behind bars right now. >> how soon did you know about the whole incident? >> it was approximately a week and a half after the incident. i was actually down in tampa with my boys at a football game when i started receiving phone calls that this was going on. i immediately when i got that, i came back up to town and have been involved ever since. >> who alerted you to all of this? was it the city manager? was it mr. bonaparte or was it citizens? >> i believe it was the city manager was the first call. >> and why did it take so long for people in charge to figure out that ...

Especially with reverend al's devotion to this cause for justice. it's a step in the right direction but we still don't have an arrest yet. it's more investigating and, you know, you kind of ask, what do we have to investigate? it's a step in the right direction when a leader in the state says the whole world is looking at our state and we need to get this right. so we are cautiously optimistic tonight. we got to keep the pressure on until we get an arrest. >> reverend al, we both on this show last night talked to mr. bonaparte, the city manager. you did an amazing interview with him tonight. ...

The city manager or bill lee, are they doing a small step too late? every step being taken is taken too late. if they had a couple weeks ago taken some action of some kind on bill lee, it might have been more satisfactory this far into this. >> no, i think you're right. this is not doing anything to make anybody feel any better. the city manager is behind step. the chief of police is behind step and we don't know who it was. they don't get it at all. this is more of a momentum and as long as you're not talking last night and i was speaking with ron allen and several other reporters, we just ga...

Anybody at the amount of time that this has taken. i think originally it was to do a full and thorough investigation and then as we starred figuring out what was happening from that point, the pressure really came on us to do something. i think that the way it was handled in the media and some of the leaks that were in the department that have been on going in the department and some of the responses from us have been absolutely terrible and have actually ignited some of the issues that we're in right now. and that's a managerial thing. that's a -- that's part of the issue of why i voted for n...