It looks like the city needs to look at how it chooses police leadership.



Lee, 52, took over as police chief in May after the former chief was booted due to another racial scandal. In December 2010, the son of a local police lieutenant son was caught on film beating a homeless black man outside a downtown Sanford bar.

It looks like perhaps this police chief should have every homicide case he has ever had anything to do with re-investigated with fresh eyes.

I can not believe he said what I bolded below:



SANFORD, Fl Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee, under fire for his handling of the investigation into the killing of an unarmed Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin, temporarily removed himself from office Thursday, a day after city commissioners gave him a vote of no confidence. Lee, stressing his credentials as a former homicide investigator, said that he stands by the police department and the investigation. “I am aware my role as leader of this department has become a distraction from the investigation,” Lee said, adding that “temporarily removing” himself from the role would restore a “semblance of calm to the city which has been in turmoil for several weeks.”

H/T Diogenes2008:

