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Removed. the lead detective who was strongly criticized at the beginning, he remains on the police department. he is the one who had put together an arrest affidavit. well, they never actually executed that arrest affidavit. he was eventually put back in uniform, working occasionally on the night shift, but he's still here with the police department. >> all right. >> reporter: looking forward for this community, they now, david, have to continue to see if they can make the community more inclusive. and part of that is waiting for a report from the department of justice, the fbi civil rights di...

'60s. it was out of atrocities like someone mentioned to be. that energized the march on washington. so i think what they've done is won a battle but will lose the war. because people are going to say, wait a minute. this started when the local police made a unilateral decision that even the florida state prosecutor didn't agree with. and then now you have the defense attorney representing us for saying that a young man who did nothing wrong should be have been killed. can you imagine that you're going to come forward to the nation tonight and say the nerve of you to question the killing of a ...

Police officers are on the stand. >> in this case it was sort of a mixed bag. the prosecution obviously put the police officers on but sometimes, including chris serino, the lead detective, didn't seem all that confident in the guilt of the person they had requested to have manslaughter charges. i thought it odd who t-- i don' think the police were particularly good for either side. >> this was a bizarro case as mark o'mara said. the only police expert, use of force expert was testifying for the defense. a lot of the police really seemed to believe george zimmerman. we know that's true because...

Were called by his defense team to testify they're confident it was him, zimmerman, heard screaming on those tapes. do you know whose voice that is in the background screaming? >> yes, definitely. that's georgie. i hear it. i hear him screaming. >> i thought it was george. >> whose voice is it? >> george zimmerman's voice. >> reporter: this comes after the mothers of martin and zimmerman took the stand late last week. both calmly, confidently, and definitively identified the voice that of her son on the 911 tapes. >> who do you recognize that to be, ma'am? >> trayvon benjamin martin. >> i am s...

Prosecution case, that they may have been better off not overcharging this case. >> well, that's right. chris serino is a fascinating character in this story. he was the lead detective, who as you say did recommend manslaughter charges be filed. instead, initially no charges were filed. 44 days later after a special prosecutor was appointed, murder charges were filed. chris serino testified for the prosecution that he believed george zimmerman's story, that he reviewed all of the evidence, conclude the it was a self-defense case. chris serino, by the way, is no longer a detective. he's now wor...