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Been arrested. only 33% of whites agree. joy-ann reid is the editor of the grio.com. she joins us live from greo.com. live from sanford where she's done great reporting. good afternoon, joanne. >> hi, martin, how are you? >> i'm great. zimmerman's family is launching a website to raise money for his living expenses and his defense. which is curious since he's yet to be arrested or charged. are they assuming that's just a matter of time now? >> well, there is no word coming to us from the zimmerman camp. a lot of this has been through leaks or interviews they've done with other stations, partic...

Attorney is being brought on the team who has more resources to handle media requests. that new attorney, hal uhrig is a former police officer and a senior partner in a six-lawyer firm and told fox 35 in orlando that he fully believes zimmerman's story of self-defense despite never having met him face-to-face. >> there are cases where like i want to hear my cliebt ae version and look in his eye and see if i believe him or not. i understand the sanford police have given him a voice stress test and he passed that. a new poll shows a big racial divide of regarding this case and joining me is gr...

Himself recused from the case showing up and talking with the police chief, talking with chief investigations, and then overruling the lead investigator in the case and then releasing george zimmerman, if you add to that that family members were there, it could be a particularly, a big development. >> and i understand that the attorney for george zimmerman has indicated that he will give himself up that he's not hiding from police, if there is an arrest? >> when i was in sanford, what we were always consistently told is that george zimmerman has not fled the country. the police know where he i...

That's what keeps me moving every day. that's what keeps me moving forward. and for me to understand what i really have to do. i'm doing this for god, i'm doing this for trayvon. it makes me press forward to know we have to get justice for my son so that his death is not in vain. >> joe and reid is managing editor of the grio.com and sat down with trayvon's mom this weekend. a lot of developments today. we understand fbi agents are at the gated community there and are -- are at the area there and are beginning to look for evidence because they are now investigating a possible civil rights viol...

Felony. >> okay. what about the search for a new police chief there in the wake of him stepping down, is this enough to quell the outrage? finding a new police chief of sanford? >> i don't think so at all. talking to residents in sanford and looking at the national reto response to the sanford police department itself, a lot of people say replacing the chief is not enough to make the town feel nationwide that the department is really clean, operating above board. there's been a lot of leaks from the department. there's been a feeling that the police have not been operating honestly. and that s...