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36 days after the shooting of trayvon martin, but they still don t know exactly what happened that night. but we do know george zimmerman was handcuffed, brought to the police station and then walked out a free man later that night. why? because state attorney norm wolfinger refused to charge zimmerman. amid great public outrage wolfinger recused himself from the case and governor rick scott appointed governor cory to take over. today the martin family sent a formal request to the justice department to investigate in the meeting between wolfinger and police chief lee on the night of ....
The shooting. he said the men over ruled the homicide investigator s recommendation that zimmerman be charged with manslaughter. in response wolfinger released a statement today saying he s, quote, outraged by the outright lies contained in that letter. joining me now is managing editor of thegrio.com joy reed and ken padowitz, former homicide prosecutor. thanks for joining me. joanne, let s start with the letter the attorney for trayvon s family sent to the department of justice. what was this meeting that he s referring to? right. so today the attorney for trayvon martin s family sent a number to the justice department saying there are a number of things they want to look into. they want to look at the investigation of the case by police, what they did. they want to look into reports we have had from an anonymous source that wolfinger, the state ....
Parents sent a letter to the justice department asking for a formal investigation of florida state attorney s interactions with the sanford police department. the family wants to know why wolfinger s office didn t bring charges against zimmerman even though the lead homicide investigator in the case wanted an arrest. the most explosive news today centers on a witness 911 call the night of the shooting. on this call a voice can be heard screaming for help. listen. 911 do you need police, fire or medical? maybe both. i m not sure. there s someone screaming outside. is it a male or a female? it sounds like a male. you don t know why? i don t know why, i think they are yelling help, but i don t know. just send someone quick please. does he look hurt to you? i can t see him. ....
Martin family wants them to look at whether or not the chief of police and the state attorney norm wolfinger were here and allegedly had a conversation where they overruled the homicide investigator who wanted to press manslaughter charges against george zimmerman. the police denied that. wolfinger released a statement saying they were outright lies. that s the first time we have heard from him during the course of the investigation. it was a strong letter that was a really strong pushback about that allegation that the martin family s attorneys are making. so we go on. you re right. is he saying there was not an affidavit from the lead investigator? he wasn t specific. he said the letter, the allegations were lies, that the meeting, the communication between the chief and the state attorney, he says it never happened. it s a lie. he s denying the meeting, not the affidavit and the statement ....