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Until these questions are answered, how can i depend on you to do your job? >> those are the conversations i'll be having with chief lee. >> mr. bonaparte, i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight. reverend sharpton is going to be down there tomorrow. he may get a chance to talk to you and possibly meet with you down there. >> i'd welcome that very much, reverend. >> i think you can understand the pressure that's building on this. i understand in the position you're in you may be making different decisions on a day-to-day basis as we saw from the city commission today. i do hope yo...

You can't ask everybody to let chief lee continue to operate when all of these unanswered questions are there. he should step aside while this examination is going on. >> that's certainly on the table, reverend. but i, again, think that as a city manager i would want to have an outside review that helps me from a law enforcement perspective say, yes, this is where the sanford police did not do their job. >> but, mr. bonaparte, a law enforcement expert can tell you whether he broke the law or whether he did something unethical. because there's possible criminal stuff that could have been done. ...

Officer and prosecutor. and back with us, the reverend al sharpton. professor sunby, i want to go to a line that's in the police chief's report. the so-called frequently asked questions answers. where he says, by florida statute, law enforcement was prohibited from making an arrest based on the facts and circumstances they had at that time. can you deconstruct that for us? >> yes. what i think the chief was trying to say, and perhaps misunderstood in how he said it, is that any arrest, before you can make it, you have to have probable cause that the person committed the crime. and so to say th...

Utter his name forever. >> this line he says in fl about i'm sure trayvon would, too, meaning do things differently, t too. goldie, there are a lot of people out there who think that. who think that, well, you know, he shouldn't have done this. he shouldn't have run if he did run. we're not even sure he did run. we have this evidence from his 16-year-old girlfriend on the phone with him saying i told him to run but he didn't want to run. >> right. >> he's smart enough to know if i run this could be worse. i don't know what this guy's up to. this is a poisonous notion. this is a poisonous notio...

You know, at a very far distance from me. i'm not able to be with him. i'm not able to guide him directly. so when he comes in contact with police officers or other people of authority, he needs instruction. he needs to know how to comport himself so that he, you know, doesn't put himself really in harm's way. that's a conversation that we've had and that i'm going to tell you that every black parent i know has had with their sons. and so tonight when we went down to union square, everybody, you know, out wearing what we call hoodies or hooded sweatshirts, it was really about saying that we un...