The former chief of the Sanford, Florida Police Department claims that he was fired for refusing to arrest George Zimmerman.

Bill Lee said, “I had one of the city commissioners come to me on two different occasions and say, ‘All we want is an arrest.’ And I explained to them, ‘Well, you just can’t do that, you have to have probable cause to arrest somebody.’ And it was related to me that they just wanted an arrest, they didn’t care if it got dismissed later. You don’t do that.”

Radio host David Webb reacted to the claims on America’s Newsroom, saying it appears as though Lee was wrongly terminated. Webb outlined recent revelations by Judicial Watch that there was a unit of the Department of Justice that was paying for pro-Trayvon Martin rallies and exerting pressure on Sanford officials.

Michael Wildes, an adjunct law professor, disagreed saying that Lee “ignored the low-threshold of probable cause.”