This is a developing story. CNN reports that Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee has been FIRED !! More to come soon…
SANFORD — Police Chief Bill Lee, who has been under fire for his department’s handling of the Trayvon Martin case, has been fired, according to his spokesperson.
Lee’s spokesperson, Sara Brady, confirmed the news Thursday. She says city manager Napoleon Bonaparte terminated Lee, but the details have not been finalized.
Lee has been accused of overruling a detectives recommendation that George Zimmerman be arrested the night Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin. (*snip – that is flat out a bullshit statement in that sentence…. sorry, …. /SD)
Lee stepped aside temporarily in March while the investigation into Trayvon Martin’s death by George Zimmerman went on. Former Colorado Springs police Chief Richard Myers took over the department as interim chief, but Lee was never terminated.
Lee’s continued employment with the department has angered some Sanford residents. The president of Sanford’s NAACP chapter [Turner Clayton] has said that there can be no healing until Lee was fired. (article)
DO NOT forget who is on that NAACP chapter’s board. Natalie Jackson is a Seminole County NAACP board member and serves as a member of the Legal Redress Committee. In addition Natalie Jackson’s mom, Francis Oliver, is a major activist and historian within the NAACP.
The Zimmerman family quickly noticed the racist narrative being drawn and sold with reckless abandon on all the media, and they reached out to Sanford/Seminole County NAACP President Turner Clayton who they thought would support George Zimmerman from Clayton’s prior knowledge of how Zimmerman actively supported Sherman Ware within the black community.
However, if Clayton supported Zimmerman and admitted the non-racist knowledge, then he would be undercutting Natalie Jackson, who was, and is, a member of his board and now attacking Zimmerman.
So Clayton obfuscated and kept his mouth shut so he wouldn’t lose credibility within his own ethnic community, and most especially with the NAACP.
In addition Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett was backed against the wall and forced to compromise his position with the police chief or face the wrath of the local forces aligned within the NAACP. Triplett’s primary collapse under pressure was evident from his overriding of Chief Lee’s decision not to release the 911 tapes, and after a private viewing on March 16th with all anti-Zimmerman forces in his office he gave them everything they demanded. (re-read update #29)
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